man
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Is man a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. An adult male human.Examples: "Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture."collective
2. A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.Examples: "How did God create man? God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures."; "Academics who study Aboriginal languages are […] contributing to Man’s search for knowledge, a search that interests most people even if they are not personally involved in it."; "Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless."Synonyms: Mancollective
3. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.Examples: "The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools."
4. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.Examples: "Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, /[…]"obsoleteuncommonuncountable
5. (historical) A vassal; a subject.Examples: "Like master, like man."; "all the king's men"; "The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour."historical
6. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.Examples: "Most machines are set to award you an extra man after 8000 points, and then after each additional 14.000 points."Synonyms: life
pron (English)
1. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.Examples: "Man's got some new creps."; "[Sully:] If it weren’t for that snake […] Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now."; "before I got arrested man paid for my own ticket to go Jamaica you know . but I’ve never paid to go on no holiday before this time I paid (Dexter, MLE)"Multicultural-London-Englishpersonalpronounslang
2. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; construed in the third person.Examples: "Man thinks I was born yesterday."; "Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up."Multicultural-London-Englishpersonalpronounslang
3. (MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person, oneExamples: "Man don't care."; "He was of all colours Þat man may se of flours Be-twene Mydsomer and May."; "I don’t really mind how . how my girl looks if she looks decent yeah and there’s one bit of her face that just looks mashed yeah . I don’t care it’s her personality man’s looking at (Alex, MLE corpus [MLE])"Multicultural-London-Englishindefinitepersonalpronounslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).Examples: "The ship was manned with a small crew."; "In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive."transitive
2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).Examples: "Man the machine guns!"; "‘Avast!’ roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks — ‘Man the boat! Which way heading?’"transitive
3. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)Examples: "“To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”"; "he manned himself heroically"datedpossiblyreflexive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.obsoletetransitive
5. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.obsoletetransitive
name (English)
1. (computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
name (English)
1. (poetic) Humankind in general.Examples: "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared."poetic
noun (English)
1. (computing) Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network, a large computer network usually spanning a city.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary