man

noun

1. An adult male human.

   “The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.”

   “The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

   ““I want you to know that I hate you, that I think you are a cur, and that I'll never, never speak to you again. Oh, I don't dare to say what I think of you, you — man!””

   ““[…]it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.””

2. (collective)An adult male human.

   “Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.”

3. An adult male human.

   “When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men.”

   “"And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.”

4. An adult male human.

   “He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house[…]”

   “I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the[…]children and raise them[…].”

5. An adult male human.
6. (dated, formal)A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.

   “every man for himself”

   “[…]a man cannot make him laugh.”

   “Recompence to no man euill for euill.”

   “No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”

   “A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.”

7. (collective, dated, formal)A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.

   “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.”

   “We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.”

8. A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.

   “The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man, in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.”

9. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

   “For God is holde a ryghtwys man.”

   “God's a good man.”

   “Expect: But was the devil a proper man, gossip? / As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw trusted to the stage, or any where else.”

   “Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay—[…]”

   “There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.”

10. (obsolete, uncommon, uncountable)Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.

    “Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, /[…]”

11. A husband.

    “I pronounce that they are man and wife.”

    “In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man.”

12. A male lover; a boyfriend.

    “Stay away from my man!”

13. Used as the last element of a compound.

    “Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.”

14. Used as the last element of a compound.

    “I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.”

15. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.

    “"She's the man for the job."”

    “Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man —”

    “He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.”

16. (historical)A vassal; a subject.

    “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.”

    “No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.”

17. A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.

    “The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black men are placed opposite.”

18. One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.

    “Most machines are set to award you an extra man after 8000 points, and then after each additional 14.000 points.”

19. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.

    “Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!”

20. A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.

    “Near-synonyms: my man, bro, brother”

    “Hey, man, how's it goin'? I haven't seen you in months! [they know each other's name]”

    “Hey, man, thanks for holding the door! [they don't know each other's name, and it doesn't matter]”

21. A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.

    “2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018. "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."”

    “The second arrived three minutes later and was all Saka's own work, the Arsenal winger turning away from his man on the edge of the area and curling a superb effort beyond the reach of Anatoliy Trubin and into the top corner.”

22. (slang)A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
23. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network, a large computer network usually spanning a city.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Synonym of manly. (Only used in man enough.)

intj

1. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.

   “Man, that was a great catch!”

   “"What happened to your eye?" she says. "Ice pick, Bayonne, 1985," he says. "Any other questions?" "Sorry, man, I was just asking."”

   “The 19 meandering minutes of Dark Star are attractive enough but, man, they go on, while poor Creedence Clearwater Revival – headliners, with Bad Moon Rising still in the charts – are watching the clock tick in the wings.”

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.”

pron

1. (Multicultural-London-English, personal, pronoun, slang)Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.

   “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)”

   “The girl told me, "take off your jacket" / I said, "Babe, man's not hot" (never hot)”

   “Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.”

2. (Multicultural-London-English, personal, pronoun, slang)You; construed in the third person.

   “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.”

3. (Multicultural-London-English, indefinite, personal, pronoun, slang)Any person, one

   “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])”

verb

1. (transitive)To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To take up position in order to operate (something).

   “Man the machine guns!”

   ““Avast!” roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks—“Man the boat! Which way heading?””

   “At times it might seem, to a less sympathetic soul than our imagined observer, that this pale blue, egg-shaped two-door sedan, of uncertain age and in mediocre condition, was manned by an idiot.”

3. (dated, possibly, reflexive)To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)

   ““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”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To wait on, attend to or escort.
5. (obsolete, transitive)To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

name

1. A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
2. The genus Homo.
3. (poetic)Humankind in general.

   “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.”

4. The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.

   “And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.”

5. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Manitoba: a province of Canada.
6. A surname from Chinese.
7. A surname from Chinese.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Manchester: a city in England (especially in football).
9. A town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
10. A city and department in the Ivory Coast.
11. A village in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.
12. A surname
13. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Manitoba: a province of Canada.