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Type Words
Synonyms military man, military personnel, serviceman
Type of trained worker, skilled workman, skilled worker
Has types commander, inductee, leatherneck, machine gunner, marine, military officer, military volunteer, navy man, noncombatant, occupier, officer, gunner, ranger, sailor, sailor boy, ex-serviceman, enlisted person, draftee, devil dog, shipboard soldier, conscript, commando, striper, cannoneer, bluejacket, vet, veteran, veteran soldier, voluntary, volunteer, artilleryman, air force officer
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Synonyms adult male
Type of male person, male, grownup, adult
Has types bozo, swain, bruiser, bull, buster, adonis, castrate, cat, stud, strapper, stiff, sod, sir, clotheshorse, signore, signor, signior, dandy, sheik, divorced man, shaver, dude, ejaculator, senhor, esq, esquire, eunuch, ex, ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, samson, posseman, fashion plate, father-figure, father figure, father surrogate, fellow, ponce, philanderer, peter pan, fop, patriarch, paterfamilias, gallant, galoot, old man, geezer, gentleman, golden boy, grass widower, graybeard, greybeard, old boy, guy, monsieur, he-man, middle-aged man, herr, hombre, methuselah, hooray henry, housefather, macho-man, ironman, ironside, iron man, inamorato, hunk, young man, young buck, wonder boy, womanizer, womaniser, widowman, widower, baboo, babu, bachelor, beau, bey, white man, unmarried man, tarzan, swell, boy, boyfriend
Derivation manly
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Synonyms gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, valet, valet de chambre
Type of body servant, manservant


Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man.
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Synonyms isle of man
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Synonyms homo, human, human being
Type of hominid
Has types homo sapiens neanderthalensis, human beings, humankind, humanity, neandertal, neandertal man, neanderthal, neanderthal man, homo habilis, human race, homo erectus, mankind, world, homo rhodesiensis, homo sapiens, rhodesian man, humans, homo soloensis
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Synonyms human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world
Type of homo, group, human being, human, grouping


she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women.
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Synonyms piece
Type of game equipment
Has types chequer, tile, checker, chessman, chess piece, black, white
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Type of male person, male, lover


she takes good care of her man.
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Type of underling, foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary


he awaited word from his man in Havana.
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Type of male person, male
Derivation manly


the army will make a man of you.
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Type of staff
Has types crew


We cannot man all the desks.
Students were manning the booths.
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Type of do work, work


Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning.
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Type of soul, somebody, individual, person, mortal, someone


it was every man for himself.

Examples of man

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Maybe you missed the interview of the young man who helped restrain the shooter.
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This man should be banned from ever having a dog or any other animal ever again.
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A man slowly steps out and seems to be confused that he's back where he started.
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This film's one deviation from feel-good feminism is that a man lights the fire.
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That she must find a good Christian man to be a spiritual leader for their boys.
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WestridgeA freshly baked gingerbread man escaped from the kindergarten students.
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He piles everything on the counter, noticing a man in a security outfit staring.
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The man told paramedics he felt fine but had a bad headache the previous before.
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In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2010, a man cleans quinoa grain in Pacoma, Bolivia.
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  • An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
  • Take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
  • Provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"
  • Serviceman: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty"
  • The generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
  • Homo: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  • The term man (pl. men) is used for an adult human male (the term boy is the usual term for a human male child or adolescent). However, man is sometimes used to refer to humanity as a whole. Sometimes it is also used to identify a male human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "men's rights".
  • Humans, known taxonomically as Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man"), are the only living species in the Homo genus of bipedal primates in Hominidae, the great ape family. ...
  • Manfred Gnu00E4dinger (Dresden 1940 u2013 Camelle, 28 December 2002) a.k.a. Man or O Alemu00E1n was a German hermit and sculptor who lived in the village of Camelle, on the Costa da Morte, in Galicia (Spain). He lived a very simple and natural life, building sculptures on the beach where he lived and tending to his small garden...