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Man

noun

(pl. men)

1.

An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman). Synonym: adult male.

2.

Someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force. Synonyms: military man, military personnel, serviceman.

3.

The generic use of the word to refer to any human being.

4.

Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. Synonyms: homo, human, human being.

5.

A male subordinate. "He awaited word from his man in Havana"

6.

An adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent).

7.

A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer. Synonyms: gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, valet, valet de chambre.

8.

A male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman.

9.

One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea. Synonym: Isle of Man.

10.

Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games. Synonym: piece. "He sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

11.

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world. "She always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women"

verb

(past & past part. manned; pres. part. manning)

1.

Take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place.

2.

Provide with workers. "Students were manning the booths"

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"Man" Quotes from Famous Books

... swayed sideways, and Aristide caught her in his arms and dragged her to the stone bench. The fat, heavy man looked at them for a second, laughed again, and sped through the porte-cochere. Mrs. Ducksmith quickly recovered from her fainting attack, and gently ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... man began a gesture of despair, which he restrained lest those inimical eyes should lift again. This was not a place, he well knew, where sentimental values held good, where the part of a young and unprotected girl would be taken against the son of the house out of any mawkish feeling that youth ...

— The Judge • Rebecca West

... of this kind had ceased to alarm Cytherea. Miss Aldclyffe's blunt mood was not her worst. Cytherea thought of another man, whose name, in spite of resolves, tears, renunciations and injured pride, lingered in her ears like an old familiar strain. That man was qualified for ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... he had the settlement of a large part of the present county more or less subject to his control. In other parts of the State also he came to own or control large areas of land, until, toward the end of his life, he had "settled more acres than any man in America." ...

— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

... later Carnac was in the yard of the mill, and in one corner he saw the man he took to be Roudin talking to a group of workmen. He hurried over, and heard Roudin declaring that he, Carnac, was secretly married to a woman whom he repudiated, and was that the kind of man to have ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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