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1. Social deportment
   "he has the manners of a pig"

1. How something is done or how it happens
   "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking";
   - mode, style, way, fashion
    
2. A way of acting or behaving
   - personal manner
    
3. A kind
   "what manner of man are you?"

Sounds like: ma

Derived forms: mannerses

Type of: behavior [US], behaviour [Brit, Cdn], conduct, demeanor [US], demeanour [Brit, Cdn], deportment, form, kind, property, sort, variety

Encyclopedia: Manners, Richard