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| NOUN: | 1. Behavior through which one reveals one's personality: address, air, bearing, demeanor, mien, presence, style. Archaic : port. See BE, STYLE. 2. A habitual way of behaving: consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, practice, praxis, usage, usance, use, way, wont. See USUAL. 3. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: breed, cast, description, feather, ilk, kind2, lot, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal : persuasion. See GROUP. 4. Socially correct behavior. Used in plural: decorum, etiquette, good form, mores, propriety (also used in plural), p's and q's. See USUAL. 5. A distinctive way of expressing oneself: fashion, mode, style, tone, vein. See STYLE. 6. The approach used to do something: fashion, method, mode, modus operandi, style, system, way, wise2. See MEANS.
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