adult male

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: man

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