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Meaning of 'man' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Man [ n.]
- A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
- Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
- The human race; mankind.
- The male portion of the human race.
- One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
- An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
- 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!
- A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
- One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
- One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
2 . Man [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
- To tame, as a hawk.
- To furnish with a servants.
- To wait on as a manservant.

Meaning of 'man' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . man [ n]
Meaning (1):
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Example in sentence:
  • all the world loves a lover;
  • she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
Meaning (2):
- a male subordinate
Example in sentence:
  • he awaited word from his man in Havana;
  • the chief stationed two men outside the building
Meaning (3):
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
Example in sentence:
  • he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage;
  • he taught me to set up the men on the chess board
Meaning (4):
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
Example in sentence:
  • it was every man for himself
Meaning (5):
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
Example in sentence:
  • Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man
Meaning (6):
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
Example in sentence:
  • she takes good care of her man
Meaning (7):
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
Example in sentence:
  • the army will make a man of you
Meaning (8):
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
Example in sentence:
  • there were two women and six men on the bus
Meaning (9):
- someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
Example in sentence:
  • two men stood sentry duty
10 . man [ v]
Meaning (10):
- take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place
Example in sentence:
  • Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning
Meaning (11):
- provide with workers
Example in sentence:
  • Students were manning the booths;
  • We cannot man all the desks

Nearby Words:

man-eater manable manace manacle manacled manacling manage manageability manageable managed

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