MAN
\mˈan], \mˈan], \m_ˈa_n]\
Definitions of MAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
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any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
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one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
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an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
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the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
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an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
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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"
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a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
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provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"
By Princeton University
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a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
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any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
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one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
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an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
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the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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The human race; mankind.
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One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
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An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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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!
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One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
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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.
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To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
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To tame, as a hawk.
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To furnish with a servants.
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To wait on as a manservant.
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A human being; - opposed tobeast.
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A married man; a husband; - correlative to wife.
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One, or any one, indefinitely; - a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
By Oddity Software
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Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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The human race; mankind.
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One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
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An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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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!
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One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
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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.
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To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
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To tame, as a hawk.
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To furnish with a servants.
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To wait on as a manservant.
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A human being; - opposed tobeast.
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A married man; a husband; - correlative to wife.
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One, or any one, indefinitely; - a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
By Noah Webster.
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A human being; an adult male of the human species; mankind; with a, any one, in an indeflinite sense; male servant; one possessed of manly qualities in a high degree; a husband; used only in man and wife; one of the pieces in chess, checkers, or similar games.
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To furnish with men; guard.
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Manned.
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Manning.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A human being: mankind: a grown-up male: a male attendant: one possessing a distinctively masculine character: a husband: a piece used in playing chess or draughts:-pl. MEN.
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To supply with men: to strengthen or fortify: pr.p. mann'ing; pa.t. and pa.p. manned'.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To supply with men; strengthen; make courageous.
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A human being; the human race; any person.
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An adult human male.
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A piece, as in chess.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A human being; an adult male of the human species; one with manly qualities; mankind; a male servant, or an attendant; a husband; a word of familiar address; a vassal; a liege subject or tenant; a movable piece at chess or draughts.
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To furnish with men; to fortify or strengthen.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] An individual of the human race; a human being;— especially, an adult male person;— the human race; mankind; sometimes the male start of the race, as distinguished from the female;— one of manly strength or virtue;— one who is master of himself, or is self-possessed;— any person; one;— -a servant of the male sex; a male attendant;— a married man; a husband; - -a familiar term of address;— a piece with which a game, as chess or draughts, is played.
