Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MAN

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Definitions of MAN

1. An adult male human.
2. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
3. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
4. A husband.
5. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
6. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
7. An adult male servant.
8. The genus Homo.
9. A male lover; a boyfriend.
10. A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
11. Abbreviation of Manitoba.
12. Abbreviation of Manchester. (especially in football)
13. Abbreviation of Manitoba.
14. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
15. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
16. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
17. (historical) A vassal; a subject.
18. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
19. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
20. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
21. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.
22. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
23. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; construed in the third person.
24. (MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person, one
25. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
26. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
27. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
28. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly, falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
29. (computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
30. (poetic) Humankind in general.
31. The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency in United Kingdom in the, Irish Sea.
32. A Chinese surname from Chinese.
33. (computing) Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network (a large computer network usually spanning a city)
34. A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)
35. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
36. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
37. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
38. (reflexive, possiblydated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

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Examples of Using MAN in a Sentence

• He is also the first man to complete both the Career Golden Slam and the Career Super Slam, achieving this feat in 1999.
• "The most learned man anywhere to be found", according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (–833), he is considered among the most important intellectual architects of the Carolingian Renaissance.
• He concluded the Treaty of Perth, by which Scotland acquired sovereignty over the Western Isles and the Isle of Man.
• Traditionally, in the Middle Ages, an acre was conceived of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of eight oxen in one day.
• Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon.
• The British Isles are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
• His filmography includes The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende; Smilla's Sense of Snow; Les Misérables; Night Train to Lisbon, Silent Heart, The Chinese Widow and A Fortunate Man.
• Folklorists trace the phenomenon of Bigfoot to a combination of factors and sources, including the European wild man figure, folk tales, and indigenous cultures.
• The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.
• Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon.
• In some legal systems, including those of South Africa, Scandinavia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, the word barrister is also regarded as an honorific title.
• It has created a number of critically acclaimed and multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Devil May Cry, Sengoku Basara, Dead Rising, Dragon's Dogma, Ace Attorney, and Marvel vs.
• Although they are not part of the United Kingdom, the UK is responsible for the defence and international relations of the islands as it is for the other Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man, and the British Overseas Territories.
• It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.
• A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature.
• He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist.
• The earliest Christian writings gave several titles to Jesus, such as Son of Man, Son of God, Messiah, and , which were all derived from Hebrew scripture.
• His aggressive driving style earned him the nicknames "the Intimidator", "the Man in Black" and "Ironhead"; after his son Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• In Old Norse, draugr also meant a tree trunk or dry dead wood, or in poetry could refer to a man or warrior, since Old Norse poetry often used terms for trees to represent humans, especially in kennings, referencing the myth that the god Odin and his brothers created the first humans Ask and Embla from trees.
• Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971.

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