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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or time of being an adult male human.
  2. n. The composite of qualities, such as courage, determination, and vigor, often thought to be appropriate to a man.
  3. n. Adult males considered as a group; men.
  4. n. The state of being human.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being man, or of belonging to the human race, as distinguished from higher or lower orders of existence.
  2. n. The state of being a man, as distinguished from a woman or a boy; virility.
  3. n. The quality of being a man or manly; manliness; possession of masculine qualities, as courage, fortitude, resolution, honor, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state of being man as a human being.
  2. n. State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  3. n. The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.
  4. n. The male genitalia.
  5. n. Men, considered as a group.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  2. n. Manly quality; virility; courage; bravery; resolution.
  3. n. The genitalia of a male human.
  4. n. The condition of being a human being.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the status of being a man
  2. n. the quality of being human
  3. n. the state of being a man; manly qualities

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English manhode, also manhede, from man + -hede ("-head"), equivalent to man +‎ -hood. Cognate with Middle Low German manheit ("manhood"), German Mannheit ("manhood"). More at man, -head, -hood. (Wiktionary)

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