Definition of "man" in İngilizce

noun

An adult male human.
- The show is especially popular with middle-aged men.
(dated, formal) A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.
- every man for himself
- Similarly, the next time you learn from your reading that the average man (you hear a good deal about him these days, most of it faintly improbable) brushes his teeth 1.02 times a day—a figure I have just made up, but it may be as good as anyone else's – ask yourself a question. How can anyone have found out such a thing? Is a woman who has read in countless advertisements that non-brushers are social offenders going to confess to a stranger that she does not brush her teeth regularly?
(anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
(uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
A husband.
A male lover; a boyfriend.
- Stay away from my man!
Used as the last element of a compound.
A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
(historical) A vassal; a subject.
- Like master, like man.
- all the king's men
- The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honour.
A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
(video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- Come on, man, we've got no time to lose!
A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- Near-synonyms: my man, bro, brother
- Hey, man, how's it goin'? I haven't seen you in months! [they know each other's name]
- Hey, man, thanks for holding the door! [they don't know each other's name, and it doesn't matter]
(sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.

2018 Dinny Navaratnam, Andrews will learn from experience: Fagan Brisbane Lions, 30 July 2018. Accessed 6 August 2018. "It was a brutal return to football for Brisbane Lions defender Harris Andrews as his man Tom Hawkins booted seven goals but Lions Coach Chris Fagan said the team's defensive faults, rather than the backman's, allowed the big Cat to dominate."

(military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.

adjective

Synonym of manly. (Only used in man enough.)

interjection

Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing a man.
- Man, that was a great catch!
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:man.

pronoun

(MLE, slang, personal pronoun) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
- Man's got some new creps.
(MLE, slang, personal pronoun) You; construed in the third person.
- Man thinks I was born yesterday.
(MLE, slang, indefinite personal pronoun) Any person, one
- Man don't care.

verb

(transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
- The ship was manned with a small crew.
(transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
- Man the machine guns!
(reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
(transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
(transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.

name

(computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.