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manicure

US/ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/

manicure noun: a cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.

Noun

manicure (plural manicures)

  1. A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
  2. (dated) A manicurist.

Verb

manicure (third-person singular simple present manicures, present participle manicuring, simple past and past participle manicured)

  1. (transitive) To apply such a treatment to the hands.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To polish or trim something very finely or evenly.

manicure meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic

manicure in Urdu

ناخن تراشی, ناخن تراشی کرنا

manicure in Bengali

হাত ও নখের পরিচর্যা, নখ কাটা, পরিষ্কার ও পালিশ করা

manicure in Kannada

ಹಸ್ತಾಲಂಕಾರ, ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರಸಾಧನ, ಉಗುರಂದಗೊಳಿಸು

manicure in Arabic

cosmetic treatment for the fingernails
مَانِيكِير manikēr, تَجْمِيل الْيَدَيْن tajmīl al-yadayn, تَجْمِيل الْأَظَافِر tajmīl al-ʔaẓāfir
More languagesFewer languages
manicure in Persian
مانیکور mânikur
manicure in Vietnamese
sửa móng tay

Examples of manicure in a sentence

  • Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.
  • Fred was disappointed to find his pigeonhole empty except for bills and a flyer offering 20% off on manicures.
  • She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.

All 23 example sentences with manicure

Forms of manicure

Noun
pluralmanicures
Verb
third-person singular presentmanicures
present participlemanicuring
past participlemanicured
pastmanicured

Past tense of manicure: manicured

Plural of manicure: manicures

Origin of manicure

From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.

Words formed from manicure

Questions about manicure

What does manicure mean?
Manicure means a cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
What is manicure in Urdu?
Manicure in Urdu is ناخن تراشی, ناخن تراشی کرنا. See Manicure meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is manicure?
Manicure can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce manicure?
Manicure is pronounced /ˈmæ.nɪ.kjʊɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of manicure?
The plural of manicure is manicures.

Words near manicure in the dictionary

  1. manicous
  2. manics
  3. manicuera
  4. manicule
  5. manicules
  6. manicure
  7. manicured
  8. manicurer
  9. manicurers
  10. manicures
  11. manicuring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: manicure (page history and authors); manicure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manicure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manicure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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