man

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man is on the Basic English 850 List.
male - man - manager
man is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
make - man - manage
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Singular
man

Plural
men

A man's figure
  1. (countable) A man is a male human.
    He was a young man with blue eyes.
  2. (comparable) A human being of either sex; a person.
    God cares for all races and all man
    God made man in his own image
    Scientists and biologists think that man and animals evolved over the years, and that man evolved from a "human" species such as "homo erectus" or "neanderthals" and that man first stood up, millions of years ago, but this isn't true

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Interjection
man

  1. You use man to show your surprise or disappointment.
    Oh man, I wanted to do the dishes!

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Plain form
man

Third-person singular
mans

Past tense
manned

Past participle
manned

Present participle
manning

  1. (transitive) If something is manned, it has people to look after it.
    The ship was manned with a small crew.
  2. (transitive) If you man something, you take up position to operate it.
    Man the machine guns!

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