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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The way in which a person behaves; deportment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Conduct; management; treatment.
  2. n. Behavior; carriage; bearing; deportment: as, decent demeanor; sad demeanor.
  3. n. Synonyms Conduct, Deportment, etc. (see behavior), manner, mien, bearing, air.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the social non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that characterise a person

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Management; treatment; conduct.
  2. n. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Middle English demenen, demeinen, from Anglo-Norman demener, from Old French demener, from de- + mener ("to conduct, lead") + -or, from Latin mināre and Latin minārī "to threaten" (Wiktionary)

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