MIEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mien mean? 

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

1. dignified manner or conduct

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dignified manner or conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bearing; comportment; mien; presence

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

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

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

dignity; gravitas; lordliness (formality in bearing and appearance)

 Context examples 

I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mien and her expression continually remind me of my dear aunt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

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

“How many have you in your train?” asked the prince, assuming a graver mien.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Two young ladies appeared before me; one very tall, almost as tall as Miss Ingram—very thin too, with a sallow face and severe mien.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was such deep remorse in his eye, such true pity in his tone, such manly energy in his manner; and besides, there was such unchanged love in his whole look and mien—I forgave him all: yet not in words, not outwardly; only at my heart's core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I see genuine contentment in your gait and mien, your eye and face, when you are helping me and pleasing me—working for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say, 'all that is right:' for if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)