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In addition to the idioms beginning with MAN, Also see AS ONE (MAN); COMPANY MAN; DEAD SOLDIER (MAN); DIRTY JOKE (OLD MAN); EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF; EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE; GIRL (MAN) FRIDAY; HATCHET MAN; HIRED HAND (MAN); LADIES' MAN; LOW MAN ON THE TOTEM POLE; MARKED MAN; NEW PERSON (MAN); NO MAN IS AN ISLAND; ODD MAN OUT; (MAN) OF FEW WORDS; ONE MAN'S MEAT IS ANOTHER MAN'S POISON; OWN MAN; RIGHT-HAND MAN; SEE A MAN ABOUT A DOG; TO A MAN. Also see under MEN.
American Heritage Idioms
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man
an adult male human:
• a young man • Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest.
guy
( also bloke/chap British English ) informal a man:
• She’d arranged to meet a guy in the bar. • Alex is a really nice bloke.
gentleman
formal a man – used as a very polite way of talking about a man:
• an elderly gentleman • Please could you serve this gentleman?
boy
a young male person, usually a child or a teenager:
• a teenage boy
lad
old-fashioned informal a boy or young man:
• When I was a young lad, I wanted to join the army.
youth
a teenage boy or young man – used especially in news reports to show disapproval:
• Gangs of youths roam the streets.
male
formal a man – used especially by the police or in science and research contexts. The adjective male is much more common than the noun:
• We are investigating the death of an unidentified male. • The condition is usually found only in males.
dude
American English informal a man - a very informal use:
• You could tell there was something creepy going on with that dude.
relating to men
male
adjective a male teacher, singer etc is a man. Male jobs are the kind of jobs that men typically do:
• Most science teachers are male. • a male nurse • We are trying to recruit more women to do traditionally male jobs such as engineering.
masculine
considered to be more typical of a man than of a woman:
• He had a very masculine face. • masculine aggression
manly
having the qualities that people expect and admire in a man, such as being brave and strong:
• He took off his shirt, revealing his manly chest. • It isn’t considered manly to cry. • In the portrait, the King looked manly and in control. • He was bronzed and athletic, with manly features and a steady gaze.
macho
behaving in a way that is traditionally typical of men, for example by being strong and tough and not showing your feelings – used especially either humorously or to show disapproval:
• On the outside he may seem to be very macho but inside he’s very sensitive. • Stallone always plays macho men. • He’s far too macho to drink mineral water.
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun male person ADJ. elderly, middle-aged, old, older, young a little old man | attractive, good-looking, handsome | ugly | short, tall | fat, thin | big, burly | little a nice little man | black, white | dark, dark-haired, fair, fair-haired | bearded | blind | sick | dead | intelligent, wise | great Several people made speeches in honour of the great man. | brave | charming, fine, good, kind, nice | honest | proud | quiet | bad, horrible What a horrible man! | arrogant | strange | brutal, hard, violent | married, single | family He's a family man who rarely goes out with his friends. | gay | professional | lucky He was a lucky man to have found such a partner. | poor, rich | betting, gambling I've never been a gambling man. | self-made | right-hand He found success hard to come by after losing his right-hand man. | innocent | free He walked out of court a free man. | condemned human beings ADJ. early, prehistoric, primitive | Stone Age, etc. | Neanderthal, etc. PREP. in ~ In man the brain is highly developed. PHRASES known to man the most poisonous substance known to man
Oxford Collocations Dictionary