man

Noun
  1. An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) (synset 110306910)
    "there were two women and six men on the bus"
    is a type of:
    • adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward
    • male, male person - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
    subtypes:
    • white man - a man who is White
    • baboo, babu - used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
    • bachelor, unmarried man - a man who has never been married
    • bey - (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt
    • boy - a friendly informal reference to a grown man
    • beau, boyfriend, fellow, swain - a man who is the lover of a man or woman
    • ex-boyfriend - a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend
    • bruiser, bull, samson, strapper - a large and strong and heavyset man
    • beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
    • ejaculator - a man who ejaculates semen
    • esq, esquire - a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
    • castrate, eunuch - a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
    • father figure, father surrogate - a man who takes over all the functions of the real father
    • father-figure - a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
    • buster, dude, fellow - an informal form of address for a man
    • galoot - a disreputable or clumsy man
    • geezer - a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric
    • gentleman - a man of refinement
    • divorced man, grass widower - a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife
    • bozo, cat, guy, hombre, sod - an informal term for a youth or man
    • herr - a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English
    • hooray henry - a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man
    • housefather - a man in charge of children in an institution
    • hunk - a well-built sexually attractive man
    • ex, ex-husband - a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
    • inamorato - a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship
    • iron man, ironman - a strong man of exceptional physical endurance
    • ironside - a man of great strength or bravery
    • adonis - any handsome young man
    • middle-aged man - a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old
    • monsieur - used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
    • old boy, old man - a familiar term of address for a man
    • graybeard, greybeard, methuselah, old man - a man who is very old
    • paterfamilias, patriarch - the male head of family or tribe
    • peter pan - a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up
    • ponce - a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses
    • posseman - an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse
    • senhor - a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'
    • shaver - an adult male who shaves
    • signior, signor - used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
    • signore - an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
    • sir - term of address for a man
    • stiff - an ordinary man
    • he-man, macho-man, stud - a man who is virile and sexually active
    • tarzan - (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
    • widower, widowman - a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
    • philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
    • golden boy, wonder boy - a man who is unusually successful at an early age
    • young buck, young man - a teenager or a young adult male
    specific instances:
    • adam - (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race
    • cain - (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God
    • abel - (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain
    • seth - (Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel
    • ham - (Old Testament) son of Noah
    • japheth - (Old Testament) son of Noah
    • shem - (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah
    has: adult male body, man's body - the body of an adult man
    same as: adult male
  2. Someone who serves in the armed forces;
    A member of a military force (synset 110602198)
    "two men stood sentry duty"
    referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
    is a type of: skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
    subtypes:
    belongs to: force, military force, military group, military unit - a unit that is part of some military service
    same as: military man, military personnel, serviceman
  3. The generic use of the word to refer to any human being (synset 110308700)
    "it was every man for himself"
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
  4. Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage (synset 102474924)
    associated with:
    • body, organic structure - the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
    • side - either the left or right half of a body
    • nutrition - the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)
    • schistosome dermatitis, swimmer's itch - a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes
    • hyperdactyly, polydactyly - birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes
    • syndactylism, syndactyly - birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes
    • prepubertal, prepubescent - (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth
    is a type of: hominid - a primate of the family Hominidae
    subtypes:
    belongs to: genus homo - type genus of the family Hominidae
    has:
    same as: homo, human, human being
  5. A male subordinate (synset 110308837)
    "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
    is a type of: foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling - an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
  6. An adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent) (synset 110308424)
    "the army will make a man of you"
    is a type of: male, male person - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
  7. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer (synset 110765000)
    "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
    is a type of:
    same as: gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, valet, valet de chambre
  8. A male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman (synset 110308177)
    "she takes good care of her man"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    is a type of:
    • lover - a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage
    • male, male person - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
  9. One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea (synset 108907943)
    is an instance of: island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
    is a part of: british isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
    same as: isle of man
  10. Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games (synset 103721866)
    "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
    is a type of: game equipment - equipment or apparatus used in playing a game
    subtypes:
    • black - (board games) the darker pieces
    • checker, chequer - one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
    • chess piece, chessman - any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
    • tile - game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
    • white - (board games) the lighter pieces
    same as: piece
  11. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth (synset 102475618)
    "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
    is a type of:
    • group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    • homo, human, human being, man - any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
    member holonym: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
    same as: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world
Verb
  1. Take charge of a certain job;
    Occupy a certain work place (synset 202426091)
    "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
    is a type of: do work, work - be employed
    verb group: man - provide with workers
  2. Provide with workers (synset 201090958)
    "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"
    is a type of: staff - provide with staff
    subtypes: crew - serve as a crew member on
    verb group: man - take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place

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