noun. A way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done or happens: synonym: method.

noun. A way of acting; bearing or behavior.

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noun. The socially correct way of acting; etiquette.

noun. The prevailing customs, social conduct, and norms of a specific society, period, or group, especially as the subject of a literary work.

noun. Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts.

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noun. Kind; sort.

noun. Kinds; sorts.

idiom. (in a manner of speaking) In a way; so to speak.

idiom. (to the manner born) Accustomed to a position, custom, or lifestyle from or as if from birth.

noun. Another form of mainor.

noun. An obsolete form of manor.

noun. The way in which an action is performed; method of doing anything; mode of proceeding in any case or situation; mode; way; method.

noun. Habitual practice; customary mode of acting or proceeding with respect to anything; characteristic way or style, as in art or literature; distinctive method; habit; style: as, one's manner of life; the manner of Titian, or of Dickens.

noun. Personal bearing or behavior; customary conduct; characteristic way of acting; wonted deportment or demeanor: most commonly in the plural: as, his manner was abrupt; good or bad manners; reformation of manners in a community.

noun. Specifically plural Good behavior; polite deportment; habitual practice of civility; commendable habits of conduct: as, have you no manners?

noun. The way in which anything is made or constituted; mode of being or formation; fashion; character; sort; kind: often used with all in a plural sense, equivalent to sorts or kinds: as, all manner of baked meats.

noun. [The word in this sense is frequently used in old English without of following, in a quasi-adjective use, like kind of in modern English: as, manner folk, kind of people; manner crime, kind of crime, etc.

noun. [Manner here is sometimes understood as manor (which was formerly also spelled manner), and is often changed to manor in the quotation to make the phrase applicable to locality.] Synonyms Manner, Mode, Method, Way. Manner is the least precise of these words, standing for sort or kind, custom, mode, method, or the like. Mode may mean a fashion, or a form or sort, as a mode of existence, or a single act or an established way, as a mode of disposing of refuse. Method implies a succession of acts tending to an end, as a method of slaughtering an ox or of solving a problem. Way is a very general word, in large popular use for each of the others, as a man's way of building a dam (method), of holding a pen (mode), of staring at strangers (manner).

noun. Habit, Usage, etc. See custom.

noun. Manners, Morals, etc. See morality.

noun. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

noun. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.

noun. Customary method of acting; habit.

noun. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.

noun. The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

noun. Certain degree or measure.

noun. Sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.

noun. in any way possible; by any sort of means.

noun. To be taken in the very act.

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noun. to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation.

noun. a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners.

noun. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

noun. Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.

noun. Customary method of acting; habit.

noun. Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.

noun. The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

noun. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.

noun. Sort; kind; style

noun. standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

noun. how something is done or how it happens

noun. a kind

noun. a way of acting or behaving

"In the later edition, he takes occasion to say, in this connection, 'that as writing in the received manner no way obstructs the _manner of pronunciation_, but leaves that _free_, an innovation in it is of no purpose.'"

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