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man, men, male, masculine, manhood
1. A reference to a human being, regardless of gender or age; a person.
2. A human or an adult-male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category; for example, it is often used in combinations: a TV repairman, a milkman, a congressman, a freeman.
3. The human race; mankind; such as, man's quest for peace.
4. In zoology, a member of the genus Homo, family Hominidae, an order of Primates, class Mammalia, characterized by an erect posture and an opposable thumb.

A member of the only species, Homo sapiens, distinguished by a highly developed brain, the capacity for abstract reasoning, and the ability to communicate by means of organized speech and recorded information in a variety of symbolic systems.

5. A male human endowed with qualities; such as, strength, considered characteristic of manhood.

Traditionally, the oldest use of the term man and words derived from it (men, manhood, women, etc.), indicated any or all members of the human race regardless of gender or age.

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(Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany)
(Greek: man, mankind; human beings; including, males (man, men; boy, boys) and females (woman, women; girl, girls); all members of the human race; people, humanity)
(Latin: human beings, mankind; literally, "man, men"; however, it now also includes, "woman, women" or all of humanity)
(Latin: man, manliness, manhood; masculine; husband)
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man, mankind, humankind
1. All humans considered as a single group.

Some people avoid using this word because they think it is offensive to women, and they use humankind instead.

2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category.
3. The human race; mankind; for example, man's quest for peace or the human race as a whole is constantly striving for peace.

Traditionally, many writers have used man and words derived from it to indicate any or all of the human race regardless of sex.

In fact, man is one of the oldest words in English and this is also the oldest use of the word. In Old English, the principal sense of man was "a human" or "human being", and the words wer (related to Latin vir) and wyf, or wæpman and wifman, were used to refer to "a male human" and "a female human" respectively.

The wer term is used today in the word werewolf.

Late in Middle English, man replaced wer as the term for "a male human"; while wyfman (which evolved into present-day woman) has been used to indicate "a female human".

Regardless of these changes, man and mankind have continued to be used in their original senses of "a human" and "a human being".

—Compiled from information located in
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition;
Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston, New York; 2006; page 1061; and
Webster's Word Histories, Merriam-Webster, Inc., Publishers;
Springfield, Massachusetts; 1989; page 290.
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A man after his own heart (Samuel 13:14 or Acts 13:22)
This entry is located in the following unit: Bible Quotations used in modern English (page 1)
dust man (s) (noun), dust men (pl)
British term for garbageman or trash man: They were waiting for the dust man, or dust men, to pick up the rubbish.
This entry is located in the following unit: English Words in Action, Group D (page 6)
Luke Howard, 1772-1864, the man who classified cloud types

Up until about 1800, there were no general classifications of clouds

Clouds were referred to poetically or as vague essences floating in the sky.

As an English manufacturing chemist and pharmacist, Luke Howard, like many who observed and studied the workings of the atmosphere at that time, was an amateur meteorologist.

Although he produced several landmark works including On the Modification of Clouds, The Climate of London, and Seven Lectures on Meteorology, the first textbook about weather, he was never trained as a scientist but from an early age, he had a fondness for nature and the weather, particularly the clouds.

Luke Howard divided clouds into basic shapes with Latin classifications: cumulus, stratus, cirrus, and nimbus.
Each cloud type is formed under different conditions.

His fascination with clouds started with the incredible skies of 1783 between May and August of that year. The Northern Hemisphere sky was filled with a "Great Fogg", a haze composed of dust and ash that caused brilliant sunrises and sunsets which resulted from the violent volcanic eruptions in Iceland (Eldeyjar) and Japan (Asama Yama).

In addition to the spectacle of the continuous volcanic ash in the sky, there was a fiery meteor which flashed across western European skies during the early evening of August 18, which was observed by the eleven year-old Luke Howard.

Before the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, most weather observers believed that clouds were too transient, too changeable, and too short-lived to be classified or even analyzed.

With few exceptions, no cloud types were named; they were just described by their color and form as each individual saw them: dark, white, gray, black, mare's tails, mackerel skies, wooly fleece, towers and castles, rocks and oxes-eyes.

Clouds were used in a few situations as weather forecasting proverbs, but mostly by their state of darkness or color:

"Red sky in morning, sailor take warning."

"Mackerel skies and mare's tails, make lofty ships carry low sails."


—Excerpts compiled from
Weather Doctor's Weather People and History;
Luke Howard: The Man Who Named the Clouds
and
— "The Father of Clouds" by Anne H. Oman in
Weather Nature in Motion; National Geographic Society;
Washington, D.C.; 2005; page 58.
This entry is located in the following unit: Meteorology or Weather Terms + (page 5)
manu-, man-, mani-, mandat-, manda-
Latin: hand, hands; in this unit.
Not This Man (Author Unknown)
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"

Endlessly from Meyer's Store;

"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"

From the networks o'er and o'er.


Star and magi, shepherds' awe,

Worshippers in cattle stall,

"Silent Night" and Christmas chimes

Shoppers meet where'er they call.


Tribune quotes in reverent type,

KXR in accents grave

Matthew's story, Luke's account

Of His birth Who came to save.


Watching demonstration toys,

Climbing onto Santa's knee,

Johnny prattles snatches from

Carols learned unconsciously.


Here is room abundant found

For Him Who in manger lay;

Every phase of business life

Lends its help to homage pay.


Here no Herod seeks the Child

Feigning worship, to destroy;

Welcome speaks each chime and song,

Tree and tinsel, card, and toy.


Here's no Savior-hating crowd

Crying, "Crucify! Away!"

Commerce has spent weeks on weeks

Laboring for His natal day.


"Who reigns o'er this festive time?"

'Mid it, for that question pause.

The answer, as from Pilate's hall:

"Not this Man, but Santa Claus!"

This entry is located in the following unit: Poetry, Proverbs, Quotes, and Statements of Faith (page 1)