manner
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English manere, maner, from Anglo-Norman manere, from Old French maniere, from Vulgar Latin *manāria, from feminine of Latin manuarius (“belonging to the hand”), from manus (“hand”). Compare French manière, Italian mannaia (“ax, axe”), Portuguese maneira and maneiro (“handy, portable”), Romanian mâner (“handle”), and Spanish manera.
Inflected forms:
form: manners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mannering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mannered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mannered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
pos: noun
examples: The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
gloss: Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
pos: noun
examples: His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
gloss: One's customary method of acting; habit.
pos: noun
examples: These people have strange manners.
gloss: Good, polite behaviour.
pos: noun
examples: Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father’s gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. Mr. Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was.
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
gloss: The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
pos: noun
gloss: A certain degree or measure.
pos: noun
examples: It is in a manner done already.
The fact that we have hundreds of positive, lesbian-affirming novels available today in no manner takes away from the basic high romance of The Price of Salt. The new edition is virtually the same in text as the original.
gloss: Sort; kind; style.
pos: noun
examples: All manner of persons participate.
gloss: Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
pos: noun
gloss: To instill manners into.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They are there to manner a child's natural abilities. They are culture club authorities and representatives. They teach children appropriate public (and private) behavior; […]
Derived words: all manner of
bad manners
bedside manner
by no manner of means
good manners
in a manner
in a manner of speaking
mannerable
manner adverb
mannered
mannerism
mannerist
manneristic
mannerization
mannerize
manner legs
mannerless
mannerly
manner of articulation
manner of death
mannerpunk
mannersome
not by any manner of means
overmanner
place-manner-time
table manners
time-manner-place
to the manner born
webside manner
with the manner
Translations: