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Definition of Manners
1. Noun. Social deportment. "He has the manners of a pig"
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Definition of Manners
1. Noun. (plural of manner) ¹
2. Noun. Etiquette (always plural in this sense). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manners
1. manner [n] - See also: manner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manners
Literary usage of Manners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1904)
"CHAPTER XXXI INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON manners That manners are softened as social
conditions become more equal—That democracy renders the habitual ..."
2. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1897)
"Lord George John manners, MP Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, SW manners, Hon.
... 17 Cadogan Square, SW manners, Lord Robert William Orlando, ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"SOME REFLECTIONS ON AMERICAN manners. seems at first sight less important ...
manners are, generally, the product of the very basis of the character of a ..."
4. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"John, eighth Earl of Rutland (1604- manners, John, ninth Earl and lirst Duke of
... 54 manners, Sir Robert (1408-1461). See under manners, Sir Kobert (d. ..."
5. Leviathan ; Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes, Alfred Rayney Waller (1904)
"Of the difference of manners. BY manners, I mean not here, Decency of behaviour;
as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, ..."
6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... them more by their features, than the Poet has by their manners. Nothing can
be more exact than the ..."
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