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Noun
/ˈmanˌho͝od/,
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The state or period of being a man rather than a child,
  1. The state or period of being a man rather than a child
    • - boys in the process of growing to manhood
  2. Men, esp. those of a country, regarded collectively
    • - Germany had lost the best of her young manhood
  3. Qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, strength, and sexual potency
    • - we drank to prove our manhood
  4. The condition of being human
    • - the unity of Godhead and manhood in Christ
  5. Used euphemistically to refer to a man's genitals


  1. the state of being a man; manly qualities
  2. humanness: the quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood"
  3. The term man (pl. men) is used for an adult human male (the term boy is the usual term for a human male child or adolescent). However, man is sometimes used to refer to humanity as a whole. Sometimes it is also used to identify a male human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "men's rights".
  4. Manhood is a 2003 film starring Nestor Carbonell, John Ritter and Janeane Garofalo. Its full title is A Guide for Serial Womanizers: Manhood.
  5. Manhood is the debut solo album by stic.man (famous from the hip hop duo Dead Prez) in 2007. The lyrical content of the album represents a bit of a departure from previous Stic.Man/dead prez music in that the underlying theme of the album--manhood--is encouraged through capital accumulation. ...
  6. the Manhood Pensinsula is essentially the peninsula the tip of which is Selsey Bill, West Sussex. It has been called the Selsey peninsula in the 20^th Century, but the current term seems to have been adopted over the past 20 years or so and is a revival of a much earlier useage (albeit not for ...