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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.

manner (plural manners)

  1. Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
    Synonyms: method, style, form, fashion, way
  2. Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
    Synonyms: air, comportment, mien; see also Thesaurus:conduct, Thesaurus:guise
    His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.
    • 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[1]:
      [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.
  3. One's customary method of acting; habit.
    These people have strange manners.
  4. Good, polite behaviour.
    • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 4, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      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.
  5. The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  6. A certain degree or measure.
    It is in a manner done already.
    • 1984 December 29, Nancy Walker, “Classic Romance: Enduring Charm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 8:
      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.
  7. Sort; kind; style.
    All manner of persons participate.
  8. Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

way of performing or effecting; method or style

characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing

good, polite behaviour

certain degree or measure

standards of conduct cultured and product of mind

manner (third-person singular simple present manners, present participle mannering, simple past and past participle mannered)

  1. (transitive) To instill manners into.
    • 2004, Susan Felicity Minsos, Weird Tit-for-Tat, page 62:
      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; […]

to instill manners into

Proto-Indo-European *mon-

Proto-West Germanic *mann

Middle English man

English manner

From man + -er.

manner (plural manners)

  1. (in combination, rare) Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people.
    • 2006, Frank Fowler, High-Mountain Two-Manner, page 258:
      It was rather ironic that my first fire in every one of my three smokejunping [_sic_] years was a high-mountain two-manner . . . and they all were on the Flathead National Forest […]

From Proto-Finnic *mandër. Cognate with Finnish manner, Ingrian mantere, and Ludian mander. Compare also Udmurt мудор (mudor, “a mythical creature”) and archaic Komi-Zyrian [script needed] (mudör, “foundation”).

manner (genitive mandri, partitive mandrit)

  1. continent
  2. mainland
    Saarlased vahest käivad ka mandril.
    The people of Saaremaa sometimes also go to the mainland.

The definition of manner in Estonian includes 6 continents: Africa (Aafrika), Antarctica (Antarktis), Australia (Austraalia), Eurasia (Euraasia), North America (Põhja-Ameerika), and South America (Lõuna-Ameerika).

Declension of manner (ÕS type 3/vaher, nd-nn gradation)
singular plural
nominative manner mandrid
accusative nom.
gen. mandri
genitive mandrite
partitive mandrit mandreid
illative mandrisse mandritessemandreisse
inessive mandris mandritesmandreis
elative mandrist mandritestmandreist
allative mandrile mandritelemandreile
adessive mandril mandritelmandreil
ablative mandrilt mandriteltmandreilt
translative mandriks mandriteksmandreiks
terminative mandrini mandriteni
essive mandrina mandritena
abessive mandrita mandriteta
comitative mandriga mandritega

From Proto-Finnic *mandër, from Proto-Finno-Permic [Term?] or possibly from Proto-Finnic *maa. Equivalent to *mante- +‎ -re. Cognate to Estonian mander and Veps mandreh.

manner

  1. mainland (main landmass of a country, continent or sometimes of a group of islands)
    • 1933, Bible, Ezekiel 26:6:
      Sen tytärkaupungit, jotka ovat mantereella, surmataan miekalla, ja he tulevat tietämään, että minä olen Herra.
      Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.
    • 1916, Anni Swan, Iris rukka [Poor Iris], WSOY:
      Hän kuvitteli mielessään, kuinka Taneli hiihtää mantereelle, ja kuinka uteliaat kaikki olivat näkemään käärön sisällystä.
      She imagined in her mind how Taneli would ski to the mainland and how everybody would be curious to see the contents of the scroll.
  2. (geology) continent
    mannerjalusta ― continental shelf
    Määritelmästä riippuen mantereita on neljä, viisi, kuusi tai seitsemän.
    Depending on definition there are four, five, six or seven continents.

manner

  1. comparative degree of mann