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deportment

/dɪˈpɔːtmənt/US/dɪˈpɔɹt.mənt/

deportment noun: bearing; manner of presenting oneself.

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Noun

deportment (plural deportments)

  1. Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
    • Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
    • ...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses
  2. Conduct; public behavior.
    • Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
    Synonyms:
    behavior, conduct
  3. Apparent level of schooling or training.
    • His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
  4. Self-discipline.
    • The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.

deportment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

deportment in Tamil

பாவனை, நடத்தை

deportment in Urdu

گت, خو, سلوک

deportment in Malayalam

പെരുമാറ്റം, വൃത്തി, ആചരണം, നടപടി

deportment in Kannada

deportment
ನಡತೆ naḍate

Synonyms of deportment

All synonyms of deportment

Forms of deportment

pluraldeportments

Origin of deportment

From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment.

Questions about deportment

What does deportment mean?
Deportment means bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
What is deportment in Tamil?
Deportment in Tamil is பாவனை, நடத்தை. See Deportment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deportment?
Deportment is a noun.
How do you pronounce deportment?
Deportment is pronounced /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of deportment?
The plural of deportment is deportments.

Words near deportment in the dictionary

  1. deportees
  2. deporter
  3. deporters
  4. deporting
  5. Deportivo
  6. deportment
  7. deportments
  8. deports
  9. depos
  10. deposable
  11. deposal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deportment (page history and authors); deportment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deportment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deportment (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ನಡತೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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