. Concerning habits, customs, ways of life, especially when these are assessed as good or bad, right or wrong. Etymologically the Latin ‘moral’ corresponds to the Greek ‘ethical’. They both mean ‘concerning habits,...

A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. As an example of the latter, at the end of...