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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to humans or the era of human life.
  • adjective Concerned primarily with humans; anthropocentric.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to man; manlike; sprung from man; human.
  • [capitalized] In geology, a term introduced by Sir J. W. Dawson to designate the human period, or the period of such Pleistocene and recent deposits as are found to contain human relics. It was divided by him into an early, or Palanthropic, and a late, or Neanthropic, stage. See human period.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.), rare Like or related to man; human.
  • adjective relating to the period of mankind's existence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to mankind or humans, or the period of humanity's existence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek anthrōpikos, from anthrōpos, human being.]

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Originated 1795-1805, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπικός (anthropikos, "human").

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