man

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  world , human race , humanity , humankind , human beings , humans , mankind , piece , Man , Isle of Man , valet , valet de chambre , gentleman , gentleman's gentleman , homo , human being , human , serviceman , military man , military personnel , adult male
• Antonyms: 
  woman , civilian , adult female