Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
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The human race; mankind.
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The male portion of the human race.
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One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
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An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
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A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
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One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
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One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
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To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
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To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.