MANNERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manners mean? 

• MANNERS (noun)
  The noun MANNERS has 1 sense:

1. social deportment

  Familiarity information: MANNERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANNERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social deportment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he has the manners of a pig

Hypernyms ("manners" is a kind of...):

behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment ((behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Hitherto I fancy you and I are the only people to whom his looks and manners have explained themselves.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was startled, I confess, by the alteration in his manners this morning;—he did not speak like himself, and did not return your kindness with any cordiality.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Grant's manners are just what they ought to be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was a dark, sallow, clean-shaven, silent person, but he had polite manners and a pleasant smile.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"What do you know about his eyes and his manners? You never spoke to him, hardly," cried Jo, who was not sentimental.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Eat his/her meals at a normal pace and with appropriate manners?

(DAD - Eat Meals at a Normal Pace and with Appropriate Manners, NCI Thesaurus)

His manners are very different from his cousin's.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was the compass by which he steered and learned to chart the manners of a new land and life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Captain Harville, though not equalling Captain Wentworth in manners, was a perfect gentleman, unaffected, warm, and obliging.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)