Man

Word MAN
Character 3
Hyphenation man
Pronunciations [mɛn]

Definitions and meanings of "Man"

What do we mean by man?

An adult male human.

(collective) All human males collectively: mankind.

A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)

(collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)

A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.

An male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.

Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.

A husband.

A lover; a boyfriend.

A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.

A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.

An adult male servant.

A vassal; a subject.

A piece or token used in board games such as chess.

Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.

A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.

A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.

A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Man

The word "man" in example sentences

Kretzmann and Stump, p. For example, ˜man™ immediately signifies the concept man, but by mediation of the concept it signifies the second substance or form of man. ❋ Read, Stephen (2006)

˜Every man or (a) donkey runs™, that is to say, whether only the term ˜man™ or the whole subject is distributed. ❋ Zupko, Jack (2006)

The owner of the Peony had that to his credit at least—no pilferage: an anxious man, a worried man— ❋ Cherryh, C. J. (2005)

I have more sympathy with Dante the man than Goethe the man… ❋ Craft, Robert (1976)

You observe, too, that, by making use of the pronoun _he_ in this sentence, we avoid the _repetition_ of the _noun_ man, for without the pronoun, the sentence would be rendered thus, "The man is happy; _the man_ is benevolent; _the man_ is useful." ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

The blood of man should never _be shed but to redeem the blood of man_. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

What makes man _man_, {270} we can exactly point out: it is self-consciousness and moral self-determination. ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)

And he's the _right_ man, mind yer, QUELCH is -- the right _man_! ❋ Various (N/A)

"But ... after you've been up against a proposition like that, and come through, it certainly makes a man feel like a _man_!" ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)

It obviously requires _every man to acknowledge another self in every other man_. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

I am a free man -- I am protected in my rights as a _man_, by the strong arm of the law; no! _not one_. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

This _somebody_ deprived of the ownership of a man, is the _man himself_, robbed of personal ownership. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

In the sentence, "The man is happy; _he_ is benevolent; _he_ is useful;" you perceive, that the word _he_ is used instead of the noun _man; _ consequently _he_ must be a _pronoun_. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

This point was the _origin of self-consciousness_ and of _free moral self-determination_; consequently, the origin of that which makes man _man_. ❋ Rudolf Schmid (N/A)

This vision of man, the master of his own destinies, the searcher for truth and the shaper of a better life for the only existence that he knows anything about, this reliance of _man upon man_, and without the supposed interference of any god, constitutes atheism in its broadest and true sense. ❋ David Marshall Brooks (N/A)

If God permitted man to hold _man_ as property, why did He punish for stealing _that_ kind of property infinitely more than for stealing any ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

In the expressions, The man walks -- The boy plays -- Thunders roll --- Warriors fight -- you perceive that the words _walks, plays, roll_, and _fight_, are _active verbs; _ and you cannot be at a loss to know, that the nouns _man, boy, thunders_, and ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

If we may safely apply Trotter's generalization to the present antagonism among groups (within nations, and also national groups) we might say that the rapid differentiation of the human species has had an effect of creating within the species _man_ a large number of types of sub-specific value, and in this respect man differs greatly from any other species. ❋ G.E. Partridge (N/A)

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