Demeanour

Definition: Demeanour

Demeanour

Noun

1. Behavioral attributes.

Date "demeanour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Demeanour

Synonyms: behavior (n), behaviour (n), conduct (n), demeanor (n), deportment (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Demeanour

Specialty definitions using "demeanour": High Ropes. (references)

Etymologies containing "demeanour": Demeanor. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	And, in so intense a moment, his demeanour would have still been calm.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Help me by your pious attention, by your own devotion, by your outward demeanour.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Demeanour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.65% of the time. "Demeanour" is used about 170 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.65%	166	24,220
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.76%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.59%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	170	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "demeanour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sjellje (bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, deportment, going on, goings on, line, manner, manners, posture), mënyrë të sjellurit (demeanor). (various references)

Arabic		‏تصرف (action, behave, behavior, behaviour, carry, carry on, comport, conduct, conduct oneself, demeanor, deport, deport oneself, deportment, disposal, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), ‏سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, course, demeanor, goings on, habit, manner, performance, walk). (various references)

Bulgarian		вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), маниер (demeanor, fashion, manner, mode, sort, style, touch, turn, way), поведение (bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, counsel, courses, demeanor, deportment, goings on, play), изражение (air, aspect, countenance, demeanor, face, look), държание (address, demeanor, deportment, doings, form, mien). (various references)

Czech		chování (bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, goings on, manner, mien). (various references)

Farsi		وضع (Aspect, Behavior, Deduction, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Setup, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Stick, Trim), حرکت (Behavior, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Poke, Progress, Stir, Stroke), سلوک (Behavior, Conduct), رفتار (Behavior, Comport, Comportment, Conduct, Demarche, Ethic, Gesture, Manner, Treatment). (various references)

French		comportement (deportment). (various references)

German		Benehmen (behave, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment, discipline, manner, manners, take away). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ליכות (behaviour, manners), �"ת� �"�'ות (bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, conduct, deportment). (various references)

Hungarian		viselkedés (air, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, countenance, dealing, demeanor, deportment, front, goings on, goings-on, habit, morals, splurge, such behaviour is not quite the potato), magatartás (attitude, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, countenance, demeanor, deportment, front, habit, mien). (various references)

Italian		comportamento (actions, bearing, behave, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment, ongoings, performance, performances). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		物腰 (bearing, manner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もの�"し (bearing, manner, with something in-between). (various references)

Manx		gaghtey, aghtys (behaviour). (various references)

Norwegian		oppførsel (behaviour, conduct, deportment). (various references)

Pig Latin		emeanourday

Portuguese		procedimento (behavior, behaviour, carriage, conduct, dealing, demeanor, deportment, procedure, proceeding, proceeds, process, processing, walking), conduta (actions, adapter, behavior, behaviour, conduct, conduit, course, dealing, demeanor, deportment, duct, flow path, gallery, goiter, life, line, main, management shake-up, manner, Manning, onion, pipe, piping, tack, tubing, ventilation duct, way), comportamento (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviorism, behaviour, behaviourism, carriage, comportment, conduct, course, dealing, demean, demeanor, deportment, moral, ongoings, performance, proceeding, walking). (various references)

Romanian		purtare (bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, conduct, fashion, foppery, goings on, habit, usage). (various references)

Russian		поведение (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, dealing, demeanor, deportment, doing, goings on, ongoings). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponašanje (behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment, do, havings, manner). (various references)

Spanish		portizaje (demeanor), porte (bearing, carriage, carriage charge, cartage, demeanor, deportment, freight, habit, mien, poise, portage, porterage, postage, setup), modo de portarse (conduit, convenances, demeanor, etiquette), conducta (actions, bearing, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment, doings, freightage, haulage, manner, portage, transport), comportamiento (actions, behavior, behaviour, comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment, ongoing, performances). (various references)

Swedish		uppträdande (apparition, appearance, apperance, behavior, behaviour, conduct, dealings, demeanor, deportment, front, manner, outcrop, performance), hållning (attitude, bearing, carriage, demeanor, deportment, firmness, front, holding, mien, posture, presence, set). (various references)

Turkish		davranış (act, action, attitude, bearing, behavior, behavioral, behaviour, behavioural, conduct, deal, dealing, demeanor, deportment, doings, form, manner, proceeding, stroke, treatment, turn, way), tavır (address, air, aspect, attitude, behavior, behaviour, carriage, demeanor, deportment, face, form, manner, mien, port, pose, posture, presence, put on, tone), hareket (achievement, act, action, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, deportment, gesture, locomotion, motion, move, movement, play, setout, starting, step, stroke), hal (aspect, circs, condition, demeanor, estate, event, face, fettle, lay, plight, posture, repair, set, sight, situation, stand, state, status). (various references)

Ukranian		манера поведінки (demeanor), поведінка (bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, gest, goings on, ongoing, proceeding, walk, walking). (various references)

Vietnamese		thái độ (attitude, behaviour, deportment, manner), cử chỉ (act, gesture, motion), cách xử sự (dealing), cách ăn ở (behaviour). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "demeanour": demeanours. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: enamoured.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: demeanor, enamored, eudaemon.
	-2 letters: amender, duramen, enamour, eudemon, madrone, manured, maunder, meander, moderne, mourned, neuroma, reedman, renamed, rondeau, unarmed.
	-3 letters: around, daemon, damner, demean, demure, earned, emerod, enamor, endear, endure, enduro, enured, maduro, manure, meaner, mender, meoued, moaned, moaner, modern, moreen, neared, normed, oedema, omened, radome, random, reamed, redone, remade, remand, remend, remuda.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: demeanours, manoeuvred.
	+3 letters: unornamented.
	+4 letters: adventuresome, counterdemand, countermanded, deuteranomaly, documentaries, outmaneuvered.
	+5 letters: counterclaimed, counterdemands, countermarched, discouragement, overadjustment.
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