• (America) IPA: /ˈkɝti.əs/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɜːti.əs/

courteous

1. show#Verb|Showing regard#Noun|regard or thought#Noun|thought for others; especially, display#Verb|displaying good manners or etiquette.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:polite

   Antonyms: discourteous, uncourteous, Thesaurus:impolite

   a courteous gentleman   a courteous gesture

   • 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: Printed [by T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 1467112 ↗, lines 932–935, page 149 ↗:

     Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]

• French: courtois, poli
• German: höflich
• Italian: cortese
• Portuguese: cortês
• Russian: любе́зный
• Spanish: cordial, cortés