manner

Definition

  • noun: the way that something is done or happens
  • noun: a characteristic or customary mode of acting
  • often used after 'in'
  • synonyms: kind, kinds, custom

Examples

  • After the storm destroyed their house, they were, 'in a manner of speaking' [='so to speak, as it were'], lost at sea. [=they felt lost and confused after their house was destroyed]

  • He had never been on a boat before, but he walked along the deck as if 'to the manner born'.

  • A number of patients have complained about the doctor's impersonal 'bedside manner'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge - Is it a custom? - Aye, many it is But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born... ...it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance - Peace, break thee off - Look, my lord, it comes (..)
    2015 Hamlet