Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
The human race; mankind.
The male portion of the human race.
One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Jim Carrey
man in Afrikaans is mens, mensekind
man in Danish is menneske, mand
man in Dutch is mens
man in Finnish is mies, ihminen
man in German is Mann
man in Italian is persona, uomo, omo
man in Latin is compleo, homo hominis, vir
man in Norwegian is menneske
man in Portuguese is homem
man in Spanish is hombre, varon
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