Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or time of being an adult male human.
- noun The composite of qualities, such as courage, determination, and vigor, often thought to be appropriate to a man.
- noun Adult males considered as a group; men.
- noun The state of being human.
- noun The male penis or genitals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being man, or of belonging to the human race, as distinguished from higher or lower orders of existence.
- noun The state of being a man, as distinguished from a woman or a boy; virility.
- noun The quality of being a man or manly; manliness; possession of masculine qualities, as courage, fortitude, resolution, honor, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
- noun Manly quality; virility; courage; bravery; resolution.
- noun The genitalia of a male human.
- noun The condition of being a human being.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being man as a
human being . - noun State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
- noun The qualities ascribed to
manliness ;courage ;bravery ;resolve . - noun The male
genitalia . - noun Men, considered as a group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the status of being a man
- noun the quality of being human
- noun the state of being a man; manly qualities
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's unclear exactly what "men" entails, and it seems like everyone's imitating someone else, and not even the biological men have worked out what their manhood is all about.
Kate Fridkis: Not Every Man Wants to Have Sex With Every Woman Kate Fridkis 2010
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Like most very young men Copplestone on arriving at what he called manhood (by which he meant the age of twenty-one years), had drawn up for himself a code of ethics, wherein he had mentally scheduled certain things to be done and certain things not to be done.
Scarhaven Keep 1899
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It seems to me that what you term your manhood was composed largely of pride, conceit, ignorance of yourself, and inexperience of the world.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Edward Payson Roe 1863
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For Mr. McAllister one measure of manhood is the willingness to face an enemy and mete out punishment without flinching.
Testosterone Put to the Test Dave Shiflett 2010
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As I have read the comments negatively addressing HuntingMom3, I must say I feel sorry for you guys who understand so little of what true manhood is that you would feel you need to defend yourselves against a Mother with valid concerns.
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The great world which I knew in my boyhood and early manhood is gone.
Page 2 2010
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And now, in manhood, my brother commits a lurid act, an act repulsive to me, one capable of arousing emotions of anger, of bitterness, of hatred.
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"And the two boys lost their best friend and an example of what manhood is really about."
Four adults still in hospital after Montgomery, Md., bus crash Dan Morse 2010
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Needless to say, viewers were left to ponder if Spitzer's manhood is large enough to accommodate a future appearance on "Unfinished Business" starring Ms Dupré.
Parker Spitzer: no snap or crackle, and not pop Dan Kennedy 2010
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As I have read the comments negatively addressing HuntingMom3, I must say I feel sorry for you guys who understand so little of what true manhood is that you would feel you need to defend yourselves against a Mother with valid concerns.
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