Man

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

The human race; mankind.

The male portion of the human race.

One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

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!

A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

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.

To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.

To tame, as a hawk.

To furnish with a servants.

To wait on as a manservant.

any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

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"