good manners

1. 1.

   a courteous manner

   Synonymscourtesy

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Questions about good manners

What does good manners mean?

good manners means "a courteous manner".

What is another word for good manners?

Close synonyms include courtesy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good manners a common word?

good manners is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.