Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: adult male Antonyms: adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
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3. | man - the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself" | |
4. | man - all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" | |
5. | man - any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae | |
6. | man - a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" | |
7. | man - an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you" | |
8. | man - a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" Antonyms: woman - a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman" | |
9. | man - a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" | |
10. | Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea Synonyms: Isle of Man | |
11. | man - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" Synonyms: piece | |
Verb | 1. | man - take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" |
2. | man - provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks" |
MAN. A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of
the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against
man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately
against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the
life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law
signifies the killing of a man by a man." Id. book 1, c. 8, s. 2.
2. In a more confined sense, man means a person of the male sex; and
sometimes it signifies a male of the human species above the age of puberty.
Vide Rape. It was considered in the civil or Roman law, that although man
and person are synonymous in grammar, they had a different acceptation in
law; all persons were men, but all men, for example, slaves, were not
persons, but things. Vide Barr. on the Stat. 216, note.
1. | MAN - Metropolitan Area Network | ||
2. | man - Unix manual page |