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English

Alternative forms

• moeurs

Etymology 1

From Latin m?r?s (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of m?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??.?e?z/

Noun

mores pl (plural only)

1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past?—?a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.

   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, ?ISBN, page 165:

     It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores?—?the rules of behaviour?—?of a society.

Translations

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.?z/

Noun

mores

1. plural of more

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mores

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of more

Anagrams

• Morse, Moser, Romes, meros, mesor, moers, morse, omers, s'more, smore, somer

Catalan

Noun

mores

1. plural of mora

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?r?s (“customs, rules”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo?res

Noun

mores pl (plural only)

1. (college) customs, rules

Derived terms

• iemand mores leren (“to teach someone a lesson”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Homophones: maure, maures, more

Adjective

mores

1. plural of more

Anagrams

• morse

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo?.re?s/, [?mo??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.res/, [?m????s]

Noun

m?r?s

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of m?s

References

• mores in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mores in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Anagrams

• serm?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.r?s/

Noun

mores m inan

1. law obedience

   Synonyms: karno??, subordynacja

Declension

Further reading

• mores in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mores in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

mores

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of morar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of morar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?es/, [?mo.?es]

Verb

mores

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of morar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of morar.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??m/
• (US) enPR: nôrm, IPA: /n??m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Etymology 1

From French norme, from Old French, from Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”).

Noun

norm (plural norms)

1. That which is normal or typical.
2. A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
3. (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
5. (mathematics) A function, generally denoted ${\displaystyle v\mapsto \left|v\right|}$ or ${\displaystyle v\mapsto \left\|v\right\|}$, that maps vectors to non-negative scalars and has the following properties:
   1. if ${\displaystyle v\neq 0}$ then ${\displaystyle \left\|v\right\|\neq 0}$;
   2. given a scalar ${\displaystyle k}$, ${\displaystyle \left\|kv\right\|=\left|k\right|\cdot \left\|v\right\|}$, where ${\displaystyle \left|k\right|}$ is the absolute value of ${\displaystyle k}$;
   3. given two vectors ${\displaystyle v,w}$, ${\displaystyle \left\|v+w\right\|\leq \left\|v\right\|+\left\|w\right\|}$ (the triangle inequality).
6. (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): absolute value, p-adic absolute value, trivial absolute value

Derived terms

Related terms

• abnormity
• abnormous
• normal
• normated
• normatic
• normative
• normo-

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from normed.

Verb

norm (third-person singular simple present norms, present participle norming, simple past and past participle normed)

1. (mathematical analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.

Derived terms

• norming

Translations

See also

• normalize, normalise

Further reading

• norm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• norm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• morn

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French norme, ultimately from Latin n?rma. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?rm/
• Hyphenation: norm
• Rhymes: -?rm

Noun

norm f (plural normen, diminutive normpje n)

1. A norm, standard.

Derived terms

• bedrijfsnorm
• begrotingsnorm
• Maastrichtnorm
• normbesef
• normloos
• normtaal
• schrijfnorm
• taalnorm

Related terms

• normaal
• normatief
• normeren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin norma

Noun

norm m (definite singular normen, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)

1. norm (that which is normal)

Derived terms

• normere

References

• “norm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin norma

Noun

norm f (definite singular norma, indefinite plural normer, definite plural normene)

1. A norm (that which is normal).

Derived terms

• normera/normere
• normering

References

• “norm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

norm c

1. norm (that which is normal)
2. norm (in analysis)

Declension

Related terms

• normal
• normera
• normalisera

Anagrams

• morn

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish nurmi.

Noun

norm

1. A clearing (among trees).