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man

English

  1. 🔊 game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
    “he taught me to set up the men on the chess board”
  2. 🔊 one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
  3. 🔊 an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
    “there were two women and six men on the bus”
  4. 🔊 a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
    “she takes good care of her man”
  5. 🔊 an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
    “the army will make a man of you”
  6. 🔊 the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
    “it was every man for himself”
  7. 🔊 a male subordinate
    “the chief stationed two men outside the building”
  8. 🔊 any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  9. 🔊 someone who serves in the armed forces
    “two men stood sentry duty”
  10. 🔊 a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
    “Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man”
  11. 🔊 all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    “all the world loves a lover”
  12. 🔊 provide with workers
    “We cannot man all the desks”
  13. 🔊 take charge of a certain job
    “Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 runa man
  2. 🔊 nano man, dude
  3. 🔊 número man, soldier
  4. 🔊 man man, guy, dude
  5. 🔊 acere man, bro, homie
  6. 🔊 machete man, bro, homie
  7. 🔊 hombre man, (adult male human)
  8. 🔊 mino man, especially an attractive one
  9. 🔊 huevón man, dude, buddy (also used as an interjection)
  10. 🔊 hombre man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind
  11. 🔊 hombre man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina)

Similar words

homo human being human world human race humanity humankind human beings humans mankind piece isle of man adult male serviceman military man military personnel valet valet de chambre gentleman gentleman's gentleman achilles adam adamite australanthropus