manifesto

noun man·i·fes·to \ ˌma-nə-ˈfes-(ˌ)tō \

|Updated on: 21 Jun 2018

Examples: manifesto in a Sentence

Editor's Note: manifesto Has Latin Roots

Definition of manifesto

plural manifestos or manifestoes

: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer

The group's manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence.

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Examples of manifesto in a Sentence

The group's manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence.

Recent Examples of manifesto from the Web

Circular design on the rise Nicholas Calcott Ahead of Salone del Mobile 2018, the Milan fair issued a manifesto of sorts calling on designers to embrace the circular economy and innovate on sustainability.

— jenny xie, Curbed, "All the NYCxDesign 2018 highlights you should know," 30 May 2018
While all four leaned left, the artworks in question were hardly manifestos.

— frank fitzpatrick, Philly.com, "How a baseball painting launched a culture war | Frank's Place," 25 May 2018
Puttnam auditioned by flying to Atlanta and handing a heartfelt manifesto to the top brass of the Coca-Cola Company, which owned the studio.

— stephen metcalf, The New Yorker, "How Superheroes Made Movie Stars Expendable," 19 May 2018
Leinbach, executive director of Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center, aims to educate and inspire with a book that's part manifesto and part how-to guide.

— jim higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "85 books for summer reading," 18 May 2018
Proenza Schouler fashion is the manifesto of a strong, free femininity.

— kathleen hou, The Cut, "Lancôme’s Next Collaboration Is With Proenza Schouler," 14 May 2018
Obviously, with the Unabomber there was a manifesto.

— Fox News, "Ingraham: Washington's real March Madness," 21 Mar. 2018
The song, which talks about freedom of love, is a manifesto about violence against LGBTQ people in Brazil.

— patrick crowley, Billboard, "7 Times Britney Spears Earned Her Gay Icon Status," 13 Feb. 2018
Her emphasis shifts from music and sound to movement and dance before presenting them as equals, and the work ends with her manifesto on independence.

— oliver sava, Chicago Reader, "Arts / Dance Ayako Kato creates a radical dance experiment in silence and stillness," 8 Feb. 2018

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manifesto Has Latin Roots

Manifesto is related to manifest, which occurs in English as a noun, verb, and adjective. Of these, the adjective, which means "readily perceived by the senses" or "easily recognized," is oldest, dating to the 14th century. Both manifest and manifesto derive ultimately from the Latin noun manus ("hand") and -festus, a combining form that is related to the Latin adjective infestus, meaning "hostile." Something that is manifest is easy to perceive or recognize, and a manifesto is a statement in which someone makes his or her intentions or views easy for people to ascertain. Perhaps the most famous statement of this sort is the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to outline the platform of the Communist League.