[ˈatɪtjuːd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a settled way of thinking or feeling about something
(e.g: he was questioned on his attitude to South Africa)

- truculent or uncooperative behaviour
(e.g: I asked the waiter for a clean fork and all I got was attitude)

- the orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel


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Origin:
late 17th century (denoting the placing or posture of a figure in art): from French, from Italian attitudine ‘fitness, posture’, from late Latin aptitudo, from aptus ‘fit’