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manger Definition

man·ger (mān′jər)

noun

a box or trough to hold fodder for horses or cattle to eat

Etymology: ME < OFr mangeure < VL *manducatoria, feeding trough < pp. of L manducare, to eat < mandere, to chew < IE base *menth-, to chew > mouth

manger Synonyms

manger

n.

  1. A feed rack

    rack, trough, receptacle, feed box, crib; see also bin, storehouse.

  2. The birthplace of Christ

    Bethlehem, crèche, stable, cradle, Holy Cradle, the lowly cattle shed, the oxen's stall.

manger Usage Examples

Possessives

  • behavior: The applicant had complained about her line manger's behavior but no proper investigation had been made.

Converse of object

  • have: Far better to not replace people, have a single manger for three departments rather than one.
  • desire: Delaware LLCs have members and, if desired, mangers.
  • make: Completing the story, we gave the children three small pieces of cardboard to make a crude manger.
  • use: The large vaulted kitchen, once the stables, retains its rustic charm, with the original manger now used for storage.
  • retain: The stalls retain an original manger and water troughs.

Adjective modifier

  • senior: Did being the first senior black woman manger in the CPS create pressures for you?
  • general: Gavin Berry, winemaker and general manger at Plantagenet wines in Mount Baker, Western Australia has made this wines.
  • own: For account customers ordering is made easy through your own dedicated accounts manger.
  • new: It's pretty amazing to think that a club crippled by debt would even consider paying such an amount to get a new manger.
  • assistant: Assistant manger John Ward joins Steve Welch on his morning show.
  • original: The large vaulted kitchen, once the stables, retains its rustic charm, with the original manger now used for storage.

Modifies a noun

  • scene: In the many manger scenes, the wise men are pictured around the manger.

Noun used with modifier

  • fund: Once a company has listed, the analysts often have a hard time trying to get fund mangers to buy the company's shares.
  • window: Or, the window manger may decide to map the window into Iconic state, in which case the window will not be visible.
  • bank: I have contacted a bank manger who will do that for us.
  • line: They must also advise their line manger of any outstanding or urgent issues.
  • land: They have been protected for over 50 years and we work with owners and land mangers to keep them in the best condition.
  • project: The project was run by Computacenter's project mangers from start to finish.
manger Quotes

And so it was, that, whilethey were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

—Alexander, Cecil Frances

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

It was the winter wild While the Heaven born child All meanly wrapped in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to him Had doffed her gaudy trim With her great Master so to sympathize; It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.

—Milton,John