DEMEANOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demeanour mean? 

• DEMEANOUR (noun)
  The noun DEMEANOUR has 1 sense:

1. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

  Familiarity information: DEMEANOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMEANOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment

Hypernyms ("demeanour" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

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

manners (social deportment)

citizenship (conduct as a citizen)

swashbuckling (flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior)

correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)

improperness; impropriety (an improper demeanor)

manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)

 Context examples 

The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farmhouse servants to be.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But his demeanour toward me was more ferocious than ever.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His whole demeanour, every action, was stamped with this purpose.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was an obtrusive show of compassionate zeal in his voice and manner, more intolerable—at least to me—than any demeanour he could have assumed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her majesty, and those who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My uncle had preserved his jaunty demeanour as long as Warr was in the room, but the door had hardly closed upon him before he turned to me with a face which was more agitated than I had ever seen it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend’s subtle powers of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had been called upon to fathom.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt some reflection of his elation in my own mind, for I knew well that he would not depart so far from his usual austerity of demeanour unless there was good cause for exultation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)