man

English

Man: Male human. Detail from a Pioneer 11 spacecraft picture

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) আধ্বব^{(চাবি)}: /mæn/
  • (US, Canada, æ-tensing) আধ্বব^{(চাবি)}: [mɛən], [meən], [mẽə̃n]
• (Jamaica) আধ্বব^{(চাবি)}: [mɑn]
• (New Zealand, parts of South Africa) আধ্বব^{(চাবি)}: [mɛn]
• (General Australian) আধ্বব^{(চাবি)}: /meːn/

• (ফাইল)

• (ফাইল)

• অন্ত্যমিল: -æn

Etymology 1

From মধ্যযুগীয় ইংরেজি man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann- m, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“human being, man”). Manu শব্দের জুড়ি.

Alternative forms

• (singular): (dialectal rendering, suggesting a Spanish accent), (dialectal rendering, suggesting an AAVE accent), (slang), (slang, used in the vocative, in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England), (rare, feminist)
• (plural): (Multicultural London English, Toronto, nonstandard, proscribed), , , (Multicultural London English), (nonstandard, African-American Vernacular), (rare, feminist), (very rare, chiefly humorous)
• (interjection): (elongated)

Noun

man

1. An adult male human.

   The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Hough Purchase Price
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:man.
2. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
   • Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page :

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3. A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult. (See usage notes.)

   every man for himself

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • c. (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

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   • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:17:

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   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Donne Devotions
   • c., Joseph Addison, Monaco, Genoa, &c., page 9:

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   • August, Edmund Burke, “The Right Hon. Edmund Burke to the Comte de Mercy”, in Charles William [Wentworth-Fitzwilliam], [5th] Earl Fitzwilliam, Richard Bourke, editors, Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Between the Year 1744, and the Period of His Decease, in 1797, volume IV, London: Francis & John Rivington, […], pages :

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   • 1991 edition (original: 1953), Darell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics, pages 19–20:

     Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?

4. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.)
   • 1647, Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 10:

     How did God create man?

     God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

   • Barry J. Blake, Australian Aboriginal Languages: A General Introduction, page :

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   • ২০১৩ জুলাই ২০, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist‎^[২], volume , number :

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   • ২০২১ জানুয়ারি ২০, Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb:

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6. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
   • The Almanac of Science and Technology, →ISBN, page :

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7. A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
   • c., “A Gest of Robyn Hode”, in Child Ballads:

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   • (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

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   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Jonson Epicoene
   • Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three, →ISBN, page :

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   • Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

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8. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island
   • Timothy Shephard, Can We Help Us?: Growing Up Bi-Racial in America, →ISBN, page :

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9. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Jonson Every Man in His Humour
10. A husband.
    • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Book of Common Prayer
    • Joseph Addison, The Freeholder:

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11. A male lover; a boyfriend.

    Stay away from my man, Sister!

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

12. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

    Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I’m a cherry pie man.

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

13. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

    I wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I’m a flag man on a road crew.

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

14. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
    • Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, →ISBN, page :

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    • Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season, →ISBN, page :

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    • The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel, →ISBN, page :

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15. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
    • Harper's Weekly, volume , page iii:

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    • Robert Herrick, One Woman's Life, page :

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16. An adult male servant.
17. (historical) A vassal; a subject.

    Like master, like man.

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

    (old proverb)

    all the king's men

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

    • c. 1700s, William Blackstone:

      The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.

    • December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page :

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18. A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
    • Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4:

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19. Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

20. Hey, man, how's it goin'?

    (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

21. (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
    • 2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018.

      "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."

    • ২০২৩ মার্চ ২৬, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎^[৩]:

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22. A clipping of "in man" or equivalent used in the CGS unit roentgen equivalent man.
    • Notes, Medical Basic Sciences Course, 1950-1953‎^[৪], volume 2, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, page :

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Usage notes

• The use of "man" (compare Old English: , , ) to mean both "human (of any gender)" and "adult male", which developed after Old English's distinct term for the latter (wer) fell out of use, has been criticized since at least the second half of the twentieth century. Critics claim that the use of "man", both alone and in compounds, to denote a human or any gender "is now often regarded as sexist or at best old-fashioned", "flatly discriminatory in that it slights or ignores the membership of women in the human race". The American Heritage Dictionary wrote that in 2004 75–79% of their usage panel still accepted sentences with generic man, and 86–87% accepted sentences with man-made. Some style guides recommend against generic "man", and "although some editors and writers reject or disregard […] objections to man as a generic, many now choose instead to use" human, human being or person instead.
  • This generic usage is still preserved in certain dialects, pidgins, and creoles of English, as well as fixed expressions and certain religious documents and declarations such as the Nicene Creed (e.g. "...for us men and our salvation..."). Consideration of this has sometimes led to accusations of the critics of the generic man as enforcing linguistic prescriptivism.
• See also the man

Synonyms

• (adult male human): (Polari); see more at Thesaurus:man
• (person): , , see more at Thesaurus:person
• (board game piece): see Thesaurus:board game piece

Coordinate terms

• (gender):
• (age): ;

Derived terms

 

See also Category:English terms suffixed with -man

Descendants

See also descendants of -man.

• Tok Pisin:
• → Cantonese:
• → Chinook Jargon:
• → কোরীয়: (maen)
• → Mandarin: (mān)
• → স্পেনীয়:
• → থাই: (mɛɛn)
• → ভোলাপুক:

Translations

See টেমপ্লেট:section link-lite.

See also

• Old English: , , .

Adjective

man

1. টেমপ্লেট:only used in

Interjection

man

1. Man, that was a great catch!

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • ২০১৯ আগস্ট ১৫, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎^[৫]:

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   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.

Translations

See টেমপ্লেট:section link-lite.

Pronoun

1. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) : I, we; .

   man's got some new creps

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • Top Boy:

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   • Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics‎^[৬], volume , number 5, page :

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   • টেমপ্লেট:RQ:Big Shaq Man's Not Hot
   • Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:

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2. (MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; .

   man thinks i was born yesterday

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):

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3. (MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person,

   man don't care

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • c., Thomas Chestre, Libeaus Desconus:

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   • Jenny Cheshire, “Grammaticalisation in social context: The emergence of a new English pronoun”, in Journal of Sociolinguistics‎^[৭], volume , number 5, page :

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Usage notes

The usage of man as a pronoun originally died out in the 15th century. It has independently reappeared in Multicultural London English. There it is most commonly used as a first person pronoun or as an indefinite personal pronoun, but uses in the second and third person are also attested.

Etymology 2

From মধ্যযুগীয় ইংরেজি mannen, from Old English mannian, ġemannian (“to man, supply with men, populate, garrison”), from mann (“human being, man”). Cognate with ওলন্দাজ bemannen (“to man”), জার্মান bemannen (“to man”), দিনেমার bemande (“to man”), সুইডিশ bemanna (“to man”), আইসল্যান্ডীয় manna (“to supply with men, man”).

Verb

man

1. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).

   The ship was manned with a small crew.

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • ২০২৩ মার্চ ৮, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number , page :

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2. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).

   Man the machine guns!

   (অনুগ্রহ করে এই ব্যবহারিক উদাহরণ এর একটি বাংলা অনুবাদ যুক্ত করুন)

   • Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

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3. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
   • Julian Hawthorne, Saxon Studies:

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4. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
6. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

Derived terms

• (verb)

Translations

See টেমপ্লেট:section link-lite.

Etymology 3

Clipping of manual.

Proper noun

man

1. (computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Derived terms

• ,

Further reading

• টেমপ্লেট:R:Keywords
• Man (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Man in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “New definitions for "man" and "woman"” by Victor Mair in Language Log (টেমপ্লেট:time)

Anagrams

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