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# mannerly

«mannerly» in Mova's school dictionary: **polite, well behaved and knowing good manners** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Mannerly means polite, well behaved and knowing good manners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mannerly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a prince who waits to be invited before eating, to show good manners

### examples

- The prince was too mannerly to eat without being invited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mannerly/#x1)
- Be mannerly and say thank you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mannerly/#x2)
- She was not mannerly to the old woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mannerly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mannerly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mannerly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.