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Verb
  • provide with workers
    • We cannot man all the desks
    • Students were manning the booths
  • take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place
    • Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning
Noun
  • all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    • all the world loves a lover
    • she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
  • game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
    • he taught me to set up the men on the chess board
    • he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage
  • one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
  • 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
  • a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
    • Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man
  • an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
    • the army will make a man of you
  • a male subordinate
    • the chief stationed two men outside the building
    • he awaited word from his man in Havana
  • any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  • the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
    • it was every man for himself
  • someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
    • two men stood sentry duty
  • an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
    • there were two women and six men on the bus
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