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say it: man
man is a noun and verb meaning "an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)". It carries 13 recorded senses.
someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
“two men stood sentry duty”
military
any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
a male subordinate
“the chief stationed two men outside the building”
“he awaited word from his man in Havana”
an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
“the army will make a man of you”
a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
“Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man”
one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
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”
take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place
“Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for man come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.