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manifesto

/ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/US/ˌmæn.əˈfɛs.toʊ/

manifesto noun: a public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.

Noun

manifesto (plural manifestos or manifestoes or manifesti)

  1. A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.
    • the Communist Manifesto
    • A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.

Verb

manifesto (third-person singular simple present manifestos, present participle manifestoing, simple past and past participle manifestoed)

  1. (intransitive) To issue a manifesto.

manifesto meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

manifesto in Hindi

public declaration
घोषणापत्र ghoṣṇāpatra

manifesto in Tamil

அறிவிப்பு, கொள்கை விளக்க அறிக்கை, கொள்கை விவரிப்பு, நிலைப்பாட்டறிக்கை

manifesto in Urdu

public declaration
مَنْشُور manśūr

manifesto in Bengali

public declaration
বয়ান boẏan, ইশতেহার iśtehar
More languagesFewer languages
manifesto in Telugu
మేనిఫెస్టో, మ్యానిఫెస్టో, మానిఫెస్టో
manifesto in Malayalam
ദൃക്ക് dr̥kkŭ
manifesto in Kannada
ಘೋಷಣೆ, ಪ್ರಣಾಳಿಕೆ, ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಪ್ರಕಟಣೆ, ಪಕ್ಷಗಳ ಧ್ಯೇಯ ಪ್ರಕಟಣೆಯ ದಾಖಲೆ
manifesto in Punjabi
ਮੈਨੀਫੈਸਟੋ, ਮੈਨਿਫੈਸਟੋ, ਮੈਨੀਫੈਸਟੋ ਕਰਨਾ
manifesto in Gujarati
જાહેરનામું jāhernāmũ
manifesto in Odia
ଇସ୍ତାହାର
manifesto in Arabic
بَيَان bayān
manifesto in Indonesian
manifesto, manifes
manifesto in Persian
مانیفست mânifest
manifesto in Thai
แถลงการณ์ tà-lɛ̌ɛng-gaan
manifesto in Vietnamese
tuyên ngôn

Examples of manifesto in a sentence

  • As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  • Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).2023 November 20, Nitish Pahwa, “What the Heck Just Happened at OpenAI??”, in Slate, →ISSN:

All 20 example sentences with manifesto

Forms of manifesto

Noun
pluralmanifestos
pluralmanifestoes
pluralmanifesti
Verb
third-person singular presentmanifestos
present participlemanifestoing
past participlemanifestoed
pastmanifestoed

Plural of manifesto: manifestos or manifestoes

Origin of manifesto

Since the mid 17th century, from Italian manifesto, from manifestare + -o, from Latin manifestō (“to make public”), from Latin manus + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifest.

Words formed from manifesto

Questions about manifesto

What does manifesto mean?
Manifesto means a public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.
What is manifesto in Hindi?
Manifesto in Hindi is घोषणापत्र (ghoṣṇāpatra). See Manifesto meaning in Hindi.
How do you use manifesto in a sentence?
As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.
What part of speech is manifesto?
Manifesto can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce manifesto?
Manifesto is pronounced /ˌmæn.ɪˈfɛs.təʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of manifesto?
The plural of manifesto is manifestos.

Words near manifesto in the dictionary

  1. manifesting
  2. manifesting destiny
  3. manifestive
  4. manifestly
  5. manifestness
  6. manifesto
  7. manifestoed
  8. manifestoes
  9. manifestoing
  10. manifestolike
  11. manifestos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: manifesto (page history and authors); manifesto (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manifesto (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ദൃക്ക് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); manifesto (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); manifesto (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manifesto (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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