manners

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.ɚz/

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• Homophone: manors

manners

1. plural of manner

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.