1. A way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done or happens. see synonyms at method.
2. A way of acting; bearing or behavior.
3. the socially correct way of acting; etiquette.
4. the prevailing customs, social conduct, and norms of a specific society, period, or group, especially as the subject of a literary work.
5. practice, style, execution, or method in the arts: this fresco is typical of the painter's early manner.
6. kind; sort: what manner of person is she?
7. kinds; sorts: saw all manner of people at the mall.
8. in a manner of speaking in a way; so to speak.
9. to the manner born accustomed to a position, custom, or lifestyle from or as if from birth.

1. mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
2. characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
3. customary method of acting; habit.
4. carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
5. the style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
6. certain degree or measure; as, it is in a manner done already.
7. sort; kind; style
8. standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

1. mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
2. characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style.
3. customary method of acting; habit.
4. carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
5. the style of writing or thought of an author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
6. certain degree or measure.
7. sort; kind; style; -- in this application sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.

1. the way in which an action is performed; method of doing anything; mode of proceeding in any case or situation; mode; way; method.
2. habitual practice; customary mode of acting or proceeding with respect to anything; characteristic way or style, as in art or literature; distinctive method; habit; style: as, one's manner of life; the manner of titian, or of dickens.
3. personal bearing or behavior; customary conduct; characteristic way of acting; wonted deportment or demeanor: most commonly in the plural: as, his manner was abrupt; good or bad manners; reformation of manners in a community.
4. specifically plural good behavior; polite deportment; habitual practice of civility; commendable habits of conduct: as, have you no manners?
5. the way in which anything is made or constituted; mode of being or formation; fashion; character; sort; kind: often used with all in a plural sense, equivalent to sorts or kinds: as, all manner of baked meats.
6. [the word in this sense is frequently used in old english without of following, in a quasi-adjective use, like kind of in modern english: as, manner folk, kind of people; manner crime, kind of crime, etc.
7. [manner here is sometimes understood as manor (which was formerly also spelled manner), and is often changed to manor in the quotation to make the phrase applicable to locality.]
8. habit, usage, etc. see custom.
9. manners, morals, etc. see morality.
10. an obsolete form of manor.
11. another form of mainor.

1. how something is done or how it happens
2. a kind
3. a way of acting or behaving