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manières

French, noun

manières is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of manière” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, maniérés is a different word: “masculine plural of maniéré”. With an accent, maniéres is a different word: “plural of maniére”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traits distinctifs, singularités que l’on remarque dans les actions extérieures des particuliers”.

What does manières mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplural of manière

adjective

as maniérés
  1. 1

    masculinemasculine plural of maniéré

noun

as maniéres
  1. 1

    feminineplural of maniére

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Traits distinctifs, singularités que l’on remarque dans les actions extérieures des particuliers.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

English words that translate to manières

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is manières in French?

manières appears 13 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).