MANNER OF SPEAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manner of speaking mean? 

• MANNER OF SPEAKING (noun)
  The noun MANNER OF SPEAKING has 1 sense:

1. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

  Familiarity information: MANNER OF SPEAKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANNER OF SPEAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

delivery; manner of speaking; speech

Context example:

I detected a slight accent in his speech

Hypernyms ("manner of speaking" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manner of speaking"):

address (the manner of speaking to another individual)

catch (a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion))

tongue (a manner of speaking)

shibboleth (a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people)

tone; tone of voice (the quality of a person's voice)

elocution (an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture)

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

inflection; modulation (a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified)

Holonyms ("manner of speaking" is a part of...):

paralanguage; paralinguistic communication (the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings)

 Context examples 

I only mean that I suppose, from your manner of speaking, it must be the same to Miss Morton whether she marry Edward or Robert.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I never sailed along of him; first with England, then with Flint, that's my story; and now here on my own account, in a manner of speaking.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mary knew, from Charles's manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday, particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing everything in so just a light.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her accent was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed and wet, were little worn and fine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why, there you all are together like a happy family, in a manner of speaking.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Will not this manner of speaking of him, Mrs Smith, convince you that he is nothing to me?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford had been in gay spirits when they first danced together, but it was not her gaiety that could do him good: it rather sank than raised his comfort; and afterwards, for he found himself still impelled to seek her again, she had absolutely pained him by her manner of speaking of the profession to which he was now on the point of belonging.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“There's a strong scour with the ebb,” he said, “and this here passage has been dug out, in a manner of speaking, with a spade.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)