manner
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
manner/ˈmanə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a way in which something is done or happens.
- 2 a style in literature or art.
- 3 (manner of) chiefly literary a kind or sort.
- 4 a person's outward bearing or way of behaving towards others.
- 5 (manners) polite or well-bred social behaviour.
■ social behaviour or habits.
– phrases
all manner of many different kinds of.
in a manner of speaking in some sense; so to speak.
to the manner born naturally at ease in a specified job or situation. [with allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet i. iv. 17.]
all manner of many different kinds of.
in a manner of speaking in some sense; so to speak.
to the manner born naturally at ease in a specified job or situation. [with allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet i. iv. 17.]
– derivatives
mannerless adjective.
mannerless adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. maniere, based on L. manuarius ‘of the hand’, from manus ‘hand’.
'manner' also found in these Oxford entries:
abrasive
- accordance
- according
- acerbic
- address
- adverbial
- age
- agitato
- air
- à la
- allotrope
- also
- amiable
- amoroso
- animato
- anywise
- A-OK
- arioso
- arsy-versy
- asperity
- astringent
- austere
- backscratching
- badly
- bear
- bedside
- bland
- blaze
- blazon
- bloody
- blunt
- blush
- bonne femme
- boss
- bot
- bounce
- breeze
- bumble
- bustle
- casual
- caution
- chicken
- cleanly
- cock
- cold turkey
- conduct
- configuration
- conjugation
- constraint
- conversion
