Usually means: Showing consideration for others always.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word polite:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. polite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polite: Merriam-Webster
  3. polite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polite: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polite: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polite, polite: Wordnik
  8. polite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Polite, polite: Wiktionary
  10. polite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polite: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Polite, polite: Dictionary.com
  14. polite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. polite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Polite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Polite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. polite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. polite: Rhymezone
  20. polite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. polite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. polite: FreeDictionary.org
  23. polite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. polite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polite: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polite: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See politely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Well-mannered, civilized.
adjective:  (obsolete) Smooth, polished, burnished.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To polish; to refine; to render polite.
noun:  A surname.

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