Usually means: Human male adult; person, individual.
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We found 69 dictionaries that define the word man:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. man: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Man, The Man, man, the Man, the man: Merriam-Webster
  3. Man, Man, -man, man, the Man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Man, man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -man, man, the Man: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Man, man: Vocabulary.com
  7. Man, Man, Man, Man, man, man, man: Wordnik
  8. -man, man, the man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MAN, Man, -man, man, the man: Wiktionary
  10. -man, man: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. man: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MAN, -man, man, the man: Dictionary.com
  14. man (n.), man (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. man: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.A.N, MAN (network), MAN, Man (JoJo song), Man (Man album), Man (Middle-earth), Man (Mulshi), Man (Neneh Cherry album), Man (Skepta song), Man (Unix), Man (band), Man (disambiguation), Man (name), Man (word), Man, The Man (Aloe Blacc song), The Man (Barry White album), The Man (Bill Drummond album), The Man (Ed Sheeran song), The Man (Killers song), The Man (Lorne Greene album), The Man (Sponge album), The Man (Stoker novel), The Man (Taylor Swift song), The Man (The Killers song), The Man (Wallace novel), The Man (comics), The Man (disambiguation), The Man (film), The Man (poem), The Man (song), The Man, The Man, The man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Man: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. man: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. man: Rhymezone
  20. man, man (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. man: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Man: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. MAN, man, m.A.n: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Man: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. man: FreeDictionary.org
  26. man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Man, Man, The Man: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. Man, man: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. man-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. Man: Seinfeld Dictionary
  6. Man: Dictionary of Symbolism
  7. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Man (anthropology and biology), The Man, man: Legal dictionary
  3. man: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAN, man: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MAN: Netlingo
  3. MAN: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. MAN: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. MAN (Metropolitan Area Network): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. MAN (network), MAN (networking), Man (anthropology and biology), The Man, man: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. man: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Man (anthropology and biology), The Man, man, man-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. MAn: Acronym Finder
  4. MAN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. man, the man: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Man: Easton Bible
  2. Man: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. man: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. MAN, Man: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. man, man, Man: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Man: 1960's Slang
  3. m.a.n: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Man: Backgammon

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. man: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See maning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An adult male human.
noun:  (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
noun:  A adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
noun:  An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
noun:  An adult male servant.
noun:  A human, a person regardless of gender or sex, usually an adult.
noun:  (collective) All humans collectively; mankind, humankind, humanity.
noun:  (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
noun:  A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
noun:  A husband.
noun:  A male lover; a boyfriend.
noun:  Used as the last element of a compound.
noun:  A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
noun:  A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
noun:  A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
noun:  (historical) A vassal; a subject.
noun:  A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
noun:  (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
noun:  A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
noun:  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.
noun:  (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
noun:  (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
adjective:  Only used in man enough
verb:  (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
verb:  (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
verb:  (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.)
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence of people.
noun:  (computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
noun:  The genus Homo.
noun:  (poetic) Humankind in general.
noun:  The Isle of Man; an island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea.
noun:  A surname from Chinese.
noun:  A surname from Chinese.
noun:  Abbreviation of roentgen equivalent man.
noun:  Abbreviation of Manitoba. [A province in Western Canada.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Manchester (especially in football) [A major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England.]
noun:  (computing) Initialism of Metropolitan Area Network (a large computer network usually spanning a city)
noun:  Abbreviation of Manitoba. [A province in Western Canada.]

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