manner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The way in which something is done or happens.

   She answered every question in a calm and confident manner.

2. 2
   noun

   The way a person behaves or speaks toward others.

   His friendly manner put all the new students at ease.

3. 3
   noun

   Polite social behavior; good habits when dealing with people.

   Their children have lovely manners and always say thank you.

4. 4
   noun

   A kind, sort, or type.

   You can find all manner of goods at the weekend market.

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Simplified etymology

Manner ultimately derives from Latin manus “hand,” through the idea of a way of handling something. Its earliest English sense was “sort” or “kind”; it later developed the meanings “usual practice or behaviour” and, in the plural, “polite social behaviour” and “customary rules of conduct.”

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.

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