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manner-
manner
See also: Männer
English
Noun
manner (plural manners)
- Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 15, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
- His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
- [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.
- Customary method of acting; habit.
- These people have strange manners.
- Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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.
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- The style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- Certain degree or measure.
- It is in a manner done already.
- Sort; kind; style.
- All manner of persons participate.
- Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
- Corruption of mainor, in the phrase "with the manner" i.e. in the very act, red handed.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Num 5:13:
- And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Num 5:13:
Derived terms
terms derived from manner
Translations
way of performing or effecting; method or style
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behavior
Statistics
Most common English words before 1923: kept · business · mean · #384: manner · following · fell · different
Estonian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of Finnic origin. Cognate with Finnish manner.
Noun
manner (genitive mandri, partitive mandrit)
Declension
Inflection of manner (ÕS type 3/vaher, d-n gradation)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | manner | mandrid |
accusative | mandri | mandrid |
genitive | mandri | mandrite |
partitive | mandrit | mandreid |
illative | mandrisse | mandritesse mandreisse |
inessive | mandris | mandrites mandreis |
elative | mandrist | mandritest mandreist |
allative | mandrile | mandritele mandreile |
adessive | mandril | mandritel mandreil |
ablative | mandrilt | mandritelt mandreilt |
translative | mandriks | mandriteks mandreiks |
terminative | mandrini | mandriteni |
essive | mandrina | mandritena |
abessive | mandrita | mandriteta |
comitative | mandriga | mandritega |
Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑnːer/
- Hyphenation: man‧ner
Noun
manner
- continent (in geological sense)
- Euraasia on manner, mutta Eurooppa ei ole.
- Eurasia is a continent, but Europe is not (in this sense).
- Euraasia on manner, mutta Eurooppa ei ole.
- The main island of Åland archipelago (Ahvenanmaan manner).
- As a modifier in compound terms, of or pertaining to the continent.
Declension
Declension of manner (type askel)
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Derived terms
- mannerjalusta
- mannerlaatta
- mannermaa
- mannermainen
- Manner-Suomi
- mannertenvälinen
- mantereinen