Noun

(wikipedia world)

Human collective existence; existence in general.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

The Universe.

The Earth.

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Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world , and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

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(lb) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.

* 2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “ NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio :

I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds .

An individual or group perspective or social setting.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world , buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}

(lb) A great amount.

Noun

(men)

An adult male human.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , act 4, scene 1:

The king is but a man , as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

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*:“it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

(lb) All human males collectively: mankind.

* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part 2 , act 4, scene 2:

a man cannot make him laugh.

* 1611 , Bible (KJV), (w) 12.17:

Recompence to no man euill for euill.

* (Joseph Addison), Monaco, Genoa, &c. , p.9:

A man would expect, in so very ancient a town of Italy, to find some considerable antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old Rostrum of a Roman ship, that stands over the door of their arsenal.

* 1991' edition (original: '''1953 ), Darell Huff, ''[//archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics How to Lie with Statistics] , pp.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?

(lb) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity.

* 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.

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A member of the genus Homo'', especially of the species ''Homo sapiens .

* 1990 , The Almanac of Science and Technology (ISBN 0151050503), p.68:

The evidence suggests that close relatives of early man , in lineages that later became extinct, also were able to use tools.

(lb) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.

* A Gest of Robyn Hode'', in the ''Child Ballads :

For God is holde a ryghtwys man .

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Much Ado about Nothing , act 3, scene 5:

God's a good man .

* 1609 , (Ben Jonson), :

Expect: But was the devil a proper man , gossip?

As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw trusted to the stage, or any where else.

An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :

He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house

* 2011 , Timothy Shephard, Can We Help Us?: Growing Up Bi-Racial in America (ISBN 1456754610), p.181:

I had the opportunity to marry one of them but wasn't mature enough to be a man and marry her and be close to the.

Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.

* 1598 , (Ben Jonson), (Every Man in His Humour)

Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, / So full of man , and sweetness in his carriage, /

A husband.

* Book of Common Prayer :

I pronounce that they are man and wife.

* 1715 , (Joseph Addison), The Freeholder :

In the next place, every wife ought to answer for her man .

A lover; a boyfriend.

A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.

A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.

A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.

* 2007 , Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night (ISBN 0778324567), p.553:

*:"She's the man for the job."

* 2008 , Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season (ISBN 160239329X), p.148:

Joanie volunteered, of course — if any dirty job is on offer requiring running, she's your man —

* 2012 , The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel (ISBN 1622951999), p.34:

He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man .

A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.

* 1909 , Harper's Weekly , Vol.53, p.iii:

When President Roosevelt goes walking in the country about Washington he is always accompanied by two Secret Service men .

* 1913 , Robert Herrick, One Woman's Life , p.46:

*:"And they're very good people, I assure you — he's a Harvard man ." It was the first time Milly had met on intimate terms a graduate of a large university.

An adult male servant. (lb) A vassal. A subject.

(old proverb)

* 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.

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A piece or token used in board games such as chess.

* 1883 , Henry Richter, Chess Simplified! , p.4:

The white men' are always put on that side of the board which commences by row I, and the black ' men are placed opposite.

(non-gloss definition, Used to refer to oneself or one's group): I, we; (construed in the third person).

* 2011 , (Top Boy) :

*:Sully: If it weren’t for that snake ... Man wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.