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Noun
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men, plural;
  1. An adult human male

  2. A male worker or employee
    • - more than 700 men were laid off
    • - CNN's man in India
  3. A male member of a sports team
    • - Johnson took the ball past three men and scored
  4. Ordinary members of the armed forces as distinct from the officers
    • - he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle
  5. A husband, boyfriend, or lover
    • - the two of them lived for a time as man and wife
  6. A male person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation
    • - a Harvard man
    • - I'm a solid union man
  7. A male pursued or sought by another, esp. in connection with a crime
    • - Inspector Bull was sure they would find their man
  8. A manservant or valet
    • - get me a cocktail, my man
  9. A vassal

  10. A human being of either sex; a person
    • - God cares for all races and all men
  11. Human beings in general; the human race
    • - places untouched by the ravages of man
  12. An individual; one
    • - a man could buy a lot with eighteen million dollars
  13. A person with the qualities often associated with males such as bravery, spirit, or toughness
    • - she was more of a man than any of them
  14. A type of prehistoric human named after the place where the remains were found
    • - Cro-Magnon man
  15. A group or person in a position of authority over others, such as a corporate employer or the police
    • - it was a vicarious way of powerless people being able to stick it to the Man
  16. White people collectively regarded as the controlling group in society
    • - he urged that black college athletes boycott the Man's Rose Bowl
  17. A figure or token used in playing a board game

  1. work force: the force of workers available
  2. (menage) family: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
  3. (a'man) the Israeli military intelligence which produces comprehensive national intelligence briefings for the prime minister and the cabinet
  4. (man) an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
  5. (man) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
  6. (man) provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"
  7. Kodashim or Qadhoshim (Hebrew קדשים, Holy Things) is the fifth Order in the Mishna (also the Tosefta and Talmud). Of the six Orders of the Mishna, it is the third longest. ...
  8. MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective that focuses on the energy of live performance and the radical potential of dance music. ...
  9. Men (Mensis, also known at Antioch in Pisidia as Men Ascaënus) was a god worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia. The roots of the Men cult may go back to Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Ancient writers describe Men as a local god of the Phrygians.
  10. Men is one of the five strikes in kendo (along with tsuki, do, hidari kote and migi kote). It is a long slashing stroke that falls on the centre-line of the head, aiming at either simply splitting the skull or cutting the adversary from forehead to bellybutton. ...
  11. Men is an American erotic magazine, published by Specialty Publications based in Los Angeles and is the largest-selling magazine of that type in the country. Its target audience consists of gay and bisexual men.
  12. The race of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, refers to humanity and does not denote gender. ...
  13. (The) people, humanity
  14. (menage) A group of people who live together as a unit
  15. (man) All humans collectively; mankind, humankind. Also Man; An abstract person; a person of either gender, usually an adult; An adult male human; A mensch; a person of integrity and honor; A piece or token used in board games such as chess; A person, often male, with duties or skills ...
  16. (Menage) Correct term for a schooling area for horses.
  17. (Menage) The performance of 'high school' type riding in a circus arena by one or more persons and their horses. Thirty or more riders in one display was not uncommon on the larger circuses of fifty years ago.
  18. (MENS) i. e. mind, a personification of mind, worshipped by the Romans. She had a sanctuary on the Capitol, which had been built, according to «ome, about the time of the battle .of lake Trasi-menus, b. c. 217, and according to others a century later. The object of her worship was, that the . ...
  19. (Mens) (Latin) Generally equivalent to mind or manas. However, as used by a few of the Roman writers, it would be more exactly equivalent to buddhi-manas.
  20. (Mens) (n) A term borrowed from the French strain of Hermetism. The mind or thinking apparatus of the individual; the level of a person’s being on the mental plane. Also known as the mental body. The sum-total of all thoughts an individual has ever had, is having, and will ever have.
  21. (MAN) German armed anti-nazi resistance group, named after the MAN engineering works in Bavaria.
  22. (Man (איש iysh, Strong's #376)) A Hebrew word is closely related to its root as well as other words derived from that root. So, by looking at the root of the word iysh we can gain a clearer picture of the meaning of this word. ...
  23. (Man) In this sense to be a lord's man, to owe obligations to, in the forms of labor and service. A woman could be someone's man.
  24. (The Man) Just like the Police, Prison Officials are referred to as The Man.
  25. (man) 'Mind' (pronounced 'mun'). One of the four aspects of the antahkaran, characterised by its functions of generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas {Gadhada I-12.11}.