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manly | manhood |

As an adjective manly

is having the characteristics of a man.

As a noun manhood is

the state of being man as a human being.

manly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the characteristics of a man.
  • Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
  • * Dryden
    • Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
  • * 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
    • Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.

    Derived terms

    * manliness

    Antonyms

    * womanly

    manhood

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being man as a human being.
    • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood .
  • State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
    • A strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood .
  • The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.
  • The male genitalia.
    • She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood .
  • Men, considered as a group.

    • Synonyms

    * (human being) mankind, humanity

    See also

    * ("manhood" on Wikipedia)