man

man
n.

1) an average; fat; grown; handsome; middle-aged; old; short; tall; thin; ugly; wise; young man

2) Cro-Magnon; Heidelberg; Java; Neanderthal; Paleolithic; Peking; Piltdown man

3) a divorced; family; married; single man

4) a con, confidence; fancy (esp. BE); hatchet; hit (esp. AE); idea; ladies'; marked; organization; party (pol.); professional; Renaissance; right-hand; self-made; straight; straw man; yes-man

5) an anchorman; businessman; leading man; liftman (BE); maintenance man; newspaperman; rewrite; stunt man; weatherman

6) a moving (AE), removal (BE) man

7) a second-story man (AE; CE has cat burglar)

8) (pol.) (AE) an advance man

9) enlisted men (AE; BE has other ranks)

10) a university man (BE; AE has college graduate)

11) a lollipop man (BE; AE has crossing guard)

12) a best man (at a wedding)

13) the common man, the man in the street

14) a man on horse-hack ('a potential dictator')

15) to a man ('everyone')

16) (misc.) he's a man of his word; man is mortal; (esp. BE) every man jack ('every man'); a dirty old man (pejor.) ('an immoral man'); a medicine man; the man of the year; a man of letters; a man of action; a man of the world

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[mæn]
Heidelberg
Java
Neanderthal
Paleolithic
Peking
Piltdown man
Renaissance
a medicine man
a man of action
a man of letters
a man of the world
businessman
grown
handsome
hatchet
ladies'
leading man
maintenance man
marked
middle-aged
newspaperman
old
professional
removal (BE) man
rewrite
right-hand
self-made
single man
straw man
stunt man
the man in the street
the man of the year
thin
ugly
weatherman
yes-man
young man
man is mortal
a dirty old man ('an immoral man'; pejor.)
(esp. BE) every man jack ('every man')
liftman (BE)
hit (esp. AE)
confidence: fancy (esp. BE)
party (pol.)
(misc.) he's a man of his word
(pol.) (AE) an advance man
Cro-Magnon
a con
a divorced: family
an anchorman
an average
the common man
a man on horseback ('a potential dictator')
to a man ('everyone')
a moving (AE)
enlisted men (AE; BE has other ranks)
a second-story man (AE; CE has cat burglar)
a university man (BE; AE has college graduate)
a lollipop man (BE; AE has crossing guard)
a best man (at a wedding)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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