man
man is a 3-letter English word with 28 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A human being; -- opposed tobeast. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
- noun. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
- noun. The human race; mankind.
- noun. The male portion of the human race.
- noun. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
- noun. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
- noun. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
- noun. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
- noun. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
- noun. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
- transitive verb. To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
- transitive verb. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
- transitive verb. To tame, as a hawk.
- transitive verb. To furnish with a servants.
- transitive verb. To wait on as a manservant.
- noun. any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
- noun. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
"there were two women and six men on the bus"
- noun. 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"
- noun. an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
"the army will make a man of you"
- noun. the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
"it was every man for himself"
- noun. a male subordinate
"the chief stationed two men outside the building"
"he awaited word from his man in Havana"
- noun. someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
"two men stood sentry duty"
- noun. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
"Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
- verb. provide with workers
"We cannot man all the desks"
"Students were manning the booths"
- verb. take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
Synonyms
homo, human, humanity, humankind, humans, mankind, world, piece, serviceman, gentleman, valet
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in man:
Common word forms
mans, manal, maned, manes, manly, manful, manned, manner, manless, manness, manning
Words from these letters
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