manner
• noun 1 a way in which something is done or happens. 2 a person’s outward bearing or way of behaving towards others. 3 (manners) polite social behaviour. 4 a style in literature or art. 5 literary a kind or sort. — PHRASES all manner of many different kinds of. in a manner of speaking in some sense. to the manner born naturally at ease in a specified job or situation. with allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet i. iv. 17. — ORIGIN from Latin manuarius ‘of the hand’, from manus ‘hand’.
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