1. man - Noun
2. man - Adjective
3. man - Verb
4. man - Pronoun
5. man - Interjection
6. Man - Proper noun
A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
The human race; mankind.
The male portion of the human race.
One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
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!
A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
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.
To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
To tame, as a hawk.
To furnish with a servants.
To wait on as a manservant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. André Gide
A woman can make any man a millionaire, if he is a billionaire. Charlie Chaplin
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one. Hesiod
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb
A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife. Greek Proverb
The wise man will be cheated only once. Finnish Proverb