morale
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈɹɑːl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /məˈɹæl/
- Rhymes: -æl
Noun
morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)
- The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
- After the layoffs, morale was at an all time low; the staff were so dispirited nothing was getting done.
- Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.
- A morale-boosting exercise
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: morâl
Translations
the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others
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Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [moˈrale]
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.ʁal/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈra.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: mo‧rà‧le
Related terms
Latin
References
- morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alɛ
- Syllabification: mo‧ra‧le
Noun
morale n (indeclinable)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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