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What (who) is man - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
MAN; Man (album); Man (song)
MAN
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![A man wearing a [[business suit]] stands next to a display of men's [[blue jeans]] at a clothing factory.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denim Jeans Pant Display.JPG?width=200 "A man wearing a [[business suit]] stands next to a display of men's [[blue jeans]] at a clothing factory.")
![A lateral cutaway of the human male lower abdomen, showing the [[human male reproductive system]] anatomy](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Male pelvic structures.svg?width=200 "A lateral cutaway of the human male lower abdomen, showing the [[human male reproductive system]] anatomy")
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MALE ADULT HUMAN
Manhood; Manhoods; Men; Human male; Male human; 🚹; 👨; Human man; 👨🏻; 👨🏼; 👨🏽; 👨🏾; 👨🏿
Man
MALE ADULT HUMAN
Manhood; Manhoods; Men; Human male; Male human; 🚹; 👨; Human man; 👨🏻; 👨🏼; 👨🏽; 👨🏾; 👨🏿
·vt To tame, as a hawk.
II. Man ·noun The human race; mankind.
III. Man ·vt To furnish with a servants.
IV. Man ·vt To wait on as a manservant.
V. Man ·noun A human being;
- opposed tobeast.
VI. Man ·noun The male portion of the human race.
VII. Man ·noun A married man; a husband;
- correlative to wife.
VIII. Man ·noun An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
IX. Man ·noun One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
X. Man ·vt To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to Fortify.
XI. Man ·noun Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
XII. Man ·noun One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
XIII. Man ·noun One, or any one, indefinitely;
- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
XIV. Man ·noun A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!.
XV. Man ·vt To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to Guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
man
MALE ADULT HUMAN
Manhood; Manhoods; Men; Human male; Male human; 🚹; 👨; Human man; 👨🏻; 👨🏼; 👨🏽; 👨🏾; 👨🏿
(men, mans, manning, manned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A man is an adult male human being.
He had not expected the young man to reappear before evening...
I have always regarded him as a man of integrity.
...the thousands of men, women and children who are facing starvation.
N-COUNT
2.
Man and men are sometimes used to refer to all human beings, including both males and females. Some people dislike this use.
The chick initially has no fear of man...
N-VAR
3.
If you say that a man is, for example, a gambling man or an outdoors man, you mean that he likes gambling or outdoor activities.
Are you a gambling man, Mr Graham?...
N-COUNT: supp N
4.
If you say that a man is, for example, a London man or an Oxford man, you mean that he comes from London or Oxford, or went to university there.
...as the Stockport man collected his winnings...
N-COUNT: n-proper N
5.
If you refer to a particular company's or organization's man, you mean a man who works for or represents that company or organization. (JOURNALISM)
...the Daily Telegraph's man in Abu Dhabi.
N-COUNT: poss N
6.
Some people refer to a woman's husband, lover, or boyfriend as her man. (INFORMAL)
...if they see your man cuddle you in the kitchen or living room.
N-SING: poss N
7.
In very informal social situations, man is sometimes used as a greeting or form of address to a man.
Hey wow, man! Where d'you get those boots?
N-VOC [formulae]
8.
If you man something such as a place or machine, you operate it or are in charge of it.
...the person manning the phone at the complaints department...
The station is seldom manned in the evening.
VERB: V n, V n
9.
10.
If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
I told him that he should be man enough to admit he had done wrong...
PHRASE: v-link PHR
11.
If you describe a man as a man's man, you mean that he has qualities which make him popular with other men rather than with women.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
12.
If you say that a man is his own man, you approve of the fact that he makes his decisions and his plans himself, and does not depend on other people.
Be your own man. Make up your own mind...
PHRASE: V inflects [approval]
13.
If you say that a group of men are, do, or think something to a man, you are emphasizing that every one of them is, does, or thinks that thing.
To a man, the surveyors blamed the government...
PHRASE: PHR with v [emphasis]
14.
A man-to-man conversation or meeting takes place between two men, especially two men who meet to discuss a serious personal matter.
He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk...
Me and Ben should sort this out man to man.
PHRASE: PHR n, PHR after v
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Wikipedia
Man (disambiguation)
A man is an adult male of the modern human species, its individuals, and nearest extinct relatives. See also man (word) for the etymology.
Man or MAN may also refer to:
Examples of use of man
1. Thought for Today: "There is no escape _ man drags man down, or man lifts man up." _ Attributed to Booker T.
2. BG: Well you know that‘s true man, brother, brother, man, brother, this is please man, not...
3. The detainees include a 37–year–old Nigerian man, a 31–year–old Senegalese man, a 38–year–old Chinese man from Indonesia and an Ecuadorean man.
4. "He‘s an innocent man, and a good man," said Gen.
5. Blair, the man demonised, is also the man in denial.