Meaning of man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. man, (adult male human)
2. Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network, a large computer network usually spanning a city.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. The genus Homo.
4. The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
5. Abbreviation of Manitoba: a province of Canada.
   abbreviation, alt-of
6. A surname from Chinese.
7. Abbreviation of Manchester: a city in England (especially in football).
   abbreviation, alt-of
8. A town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
9. A surname
10. A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
11. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mandingo
12. An adult male human.
13. Used as an expletive to indicate intense feeling: Man! That was close.
14. man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
15. Humankind in general.
    poetic
16. A city and department in the Ivory Coast.
17. An adult male human
18. All human males collectively: mankind.
    collective
19. An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
20. Slang To take an action displaying stereotypically masculine virtues such as decisiveness or courage.
    Slang
21. man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)
22. A village in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.
23. All human males collectively: mankind
24. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
25. Independent in judgment and action.
26. husband
27. An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc
28. An adult male servant.
29. Without exception: All were lost, to a man.
30. top
31. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch
32. A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.
    dated, formal
33. Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 73,837; 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Cap.: Douglas.
34. All humans collectively; mankind, humankind, humanity.
    collective, dated, formal
35. a combining form of man: layman; postman.
36. A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
37. manual.
38. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
39. to supply with men (especially soldiers). The colonel manned the guns with soldiers from our regiment. beman يُجَهِّز، يُزَوِّد доставям guarnecer obsadit (posádkou) bemannen bemande επανδρώνω, στελεχώνω dotar de personal mehitama گماردن miehittää pourvoir en personnel לְאַייֵש आदमियों के साथ आपूर्ति करना snabdjeti ljudskom posadom legénységgel ellát mengawaki manna (fornire d'uomini) ～に要員を配置する 인원을 배치하다 sukomplektuoti komplektēt sastāvu membekalkan bemannenbemanne; ta oppstilling ved obsadzić...
    especially
40. Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
    obsolete, uncommon, uncountable
41. etc. man شَخص: مقْطَع يُضاف على الكلِمَه عندما لا نَعْرِف جِنس الشَّخْص човек -eiro (používá se ve složeninách) -mann -mand (se utiliza como sufijo para referirse a profesiones) -mees مرد -mies facteur, laitier, président אִיש- दुधिया, अध्यक्ष इत्यादि विभिन्न गतिविधि से जुड़े लोग osoba (összetételekben:) postás, tejesember stb. tukang 一人 「...나라 사람, ...에 사는 사람, ...을 직업으로 하는 사람」이라는 뜻의 연결형 -ininkas, -ikas, -ėjas, -istas orang -man -mann, –person (sufiks oznaczający zawód) سړى eiroпочтальон, моло...
    etc
42. the human race as a whole. He worked for the benefit of all mankind. mensdom الإنْسانِيَّه човешката раса humanidade lidstvo die Menschheit menneskehed ανθρωπότητα, ανθρώπινο γένος género humano, humanidad inimkond بشریت ihmiskunta humanitéאנושות मानव जाति čovječanstvo emberiség umat manusia mannkyn umanità 人類 인류 žmonija cilvēce umat manusia mensheidmenneskehetenludzkośćhumanidade ome­nire, umanitate человечество ľudstvo človeštvo ljudska vrsta mänskligheten, människosläktet มนุษยชาติ insanlı...
43. A husband.
44. A male lover; a boyfriend.
45. Used as the last element of a compound.
46. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
47. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
48. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
49. A vassal; a subject.
    historical
50. A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
51. One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
52. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
53. A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
54. A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
55. A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.”

“The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

““I want you to know that I hate you, that I think you are a cur, and that I'll never, never speak to you again. Oh, I don't dare to say what I think of you, you — man!””

““[…]it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.””

“Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.”

“When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men.”

“"And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.”

“He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house[…]”

“I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the[…]children and raise them[…].”

“every man for himself”

“[…]a man cannot make him laugh.”

“Recompence to no man euill for euill.”

“No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”

“A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.”

“Without this help, such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men (both sexes) in France, still more than in the external order of things, and the evil is so great and spreading, that a remedy is impossible on any other terms.”

“Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?”

“How did God create man? God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.”

“Academics who study Aboriginal languages are […] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it.”

“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”

“We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.”

“The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.”

“For God is holde a ryghtwys man.”

“God's a good man.”

“Expect: But was the devil a proper man, gossip? / As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw trusted to the stage, or any where else.”

“Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]”

“There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.”

“Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, /[…]”

“I pronounce that they are man and wife.”

“In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man.”

“Stay away from my man!”

“Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.”

“I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.”

“"She's the man for the job."”

“Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man —”

“He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.”

“Like master, like man.”

“all the king's men”

“The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.”

“No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.”

“The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.”

“Most machines are set to award you an extra man after 8000 points, and then after each additional 14.000 points.”

“Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!”

“Near-synonyms: my man, bro, brother”

“Hey, man, how's it goin'? I haven't seen you in months! [they know each other's name]”

“Hey, man, thanks for holding the door! [they don't know each other's name, and it doesn't matter]”

“2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018. "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."”

“The second arrived three minutes later and was all Saka's own work, the Arsenal winger turning away from his man on the edge of the area and curling a superb effort beyond the reach of Anatoliy Trubin and into the top corner.”

“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.”

“And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.”

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