manners

See also: Manners

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.ɚz/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: manors

Noun

manners

1. plural of manner

Noun

manners pl (plural only)

1. Etiquette.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 39”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
     When thou art all the better part of me?

2. Good manners.
   • 1936, Dorothy Parker, “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk”, in The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker, page 170:

     When you come to this time of abatement, / To this passing from Summer to Fall, / It is manners to issue a statement / As to what you got out of it all.

Derived terms

• bad manners
• comedy of manners
• fantasy of manners
• forget one's manners
• good manners
• ill-mannered
• make one's manners
• manners maketh man
• table manners
• well-mannered

 

Translations

etiquette

• Catalan: maneres (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 規矩／规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 禮貌／礼貌 (zh) (lǐmào), 禮儀／礼仪 (zh) (lǐyí)

• Danish: manerer c pl
• Dutch: omgangsvormen (nl) pl
• Finnish: käytöstavat pl
• French: mœurs (fr) f pl, manières (fr) f pl
• Galician: modais m pl
• German: Manieren (de) f pl
• Hebrew: הוי (he) (havai)
• Ido: mori (io)
• Irish: béasa m pl
• Italian: comportamento (it) m, maniera (it) f, modi (it) m pl, educazione (it) f, etichetta (it) f
• Japanese: 礼儀 (ja) (れいぎ, reigi), 礼儀作法 (れいぎさほう, reigi sahō)
• Polish: maniery (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: etiqueta (pt), maneiras (pt) f pl
• Russian: мане́ры (ru) f pl (manéry)
• Scottish Gaelic: modh m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манири m pl (maniri)

  Roman: maniri (sh) m pl

• Spanish: modales (es) m pl
• Telugu: మర్యాదలు (te) (maryādalu)
• Ukrainian: мане́ри f pl (manéry)
• Urdu: اطوار (atwār)