manner name

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   a word that denotes a manner of doing something

   “`march' is a troponym of `walk'”

   Synonymstroponym

   Broaderword

Questions about manner name

What does manner name mean?

manner name means "a word that denotes a manner of doing something".

What is another word for manner name?

Close synonyms include troponym. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manner name a common word?

manner name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.