man
男人,人,男人们,男人的
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Definitions
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plural men [men]. /mɛn/.
- : an adult male person. Compare woman, boy.
- : a member of the species Homo sapiens or all the members of this species collectively, without regard to sex: prehistoric man.
- : the human individual as representing the species, without reference to sex; the human race; humankind: Man hopes for peace, but prepares for war.
- : a human being; person: to give a man a chance; When the audience smelled the smoke, it was every man for himself.
- : a husband: I now pronounce you man and wife.
- : a male lover or sweetheart.
- : a male follower or subordinate: the king's men; He's the boss's number one man.
- : a male employee or representative, especially of a company or agency: a Secret Service man; a man from the utility company.
- : a male having qualities considered typical of men or appropriately masculine: Be a man. The army will make a man of you.
- : a male servant.
- : a valet: He asked his man to prepare a valise for the weekend.
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Phrases
- man about town
- man in the street
- man of few words
- man of his word
- man of the moment
- man of the world
- many a
- many hands make light work
- many happy returns
- many is the
- as one (man)
- company man
- dead soldier (man)
- dirty joke (old man)
- every man for himself
- every man has his price
- girl (man) Friday
- hatchet man
- hired hand (man)
- ladies' man
- low man on the totem pole
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Examples
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.