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  1. noun A member of the genus Homo and especially of the species H. sapiens.
  2. noun A person: the extraordinary humans who explored Antarctica.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans: the course of human events; the human race.
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  • In White Queen, the same problems of communication and projection are at work in Aleutian-human diplomacy, in male-fe-male relationships on Earth, in the Clavel-Johnny relationship, and in the love affair that develops between Braemar and Johnny. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
  • So what a human was all about was…the right kind of dust! —  Wintersmith
  • It never occurs to me that my human is anything but functioning and causing death. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • Say the human was a mix of material and divine, and that the divine soul lived on; there must then be some purpose to this travel through the days, some movement up towards higher realms of being, so that the Khaldunian model of cycling dynasties, moving endlessly from youthful vigour to lethargic bloated old age, had to be altered by the addition of reason to human affairs. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Then the alien became aware the human was awake, and his head swiveled back in alarm. —  EBSCOhost
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  1. Middle English humain, from Old French, from Latin hūmānus; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly humane, humaine, from Middle English *human (in adverb humanly), humain, from Old French humain, French humain = Provencal human, uman = Spanish Portuguese humano = Italian umano, from Latin humanus, of or belonging to a man, human, humane, from homo (homin-), man: see Homo. Cf. humane, a doublet of human.
 

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