MAN


Meaning of MAN in English

I.

noun

1 male person

ADJECTIVE

▪ elderly , middle-aged , old , older , young

a little old ~

a middle-aged, balding ~

▪ grown

Although he is a grown ~, everyone treats him like a boy.

▪ 40-year-old , etc.

▪ attractive , good-looking , handsome

▪ ugly

▪ short , tall

▪ lanky , thin , wiry

▪ fat , portly , stocky , stout

▪ big , burly , heavy-set ( esp. AmE ), muscular , well-built

I was helped by two burly men with tattoos.

▪ little

a nice little ~

▪ black , white

▪ dark , dark-haired , fair-haired , light-haired ( esp. AmE )

▪ bearded

▪ bald , balding

▪ blind

▪ cloaked , hooded , masked , suited , uniformed

▪ well-dressed

▪ naked

▪ armed , unarmed

▪ able-bodied

▪ sick , wounded

▪ dead , drowning , dying

▪ homeless

▪ intelligent , wise

▪ educated

▪ great

Several people made speeches in honour/honor of the great ~.

▪ brave

▪ charming , fine , good , kind , nice

▪ honest

▪ honourable/honorable

▪ proud

▪ quiet , soft-spoken ( esp. AmE )

▪ macho , manly

▪ bad , horrible

What a horrible ~!

▪ arrogant

▪ mysterious , strange

▪ hard , violent

▪ drunken

▪ married , single

▪ family

He's a family ~ who rarely goes out with his friends.

▪ bisexual , gay , heterosexual , homosexual , straight

▪ professional

▪ lucky

He was a lucky ~ to have found such a partner.

▪ poor

▪ rich , wealthy

▪ betting , gambling

I've never been a gambling ~.

▪ self-made

He was a self-made ~ who raised himself from poverty to success.

▪ right-hand

He found success hard to come by after losing his right-hand ~.

▪ leading (= the most important male part)

George Clooney's first role as leading ~

▪ innocent

▪ free

He walked out of court a free ~.

▪ wanted (= sought by the police)

Vincente is a wanted ~ back in his own country.

▪ condemned

2 human beings

ADJECTIVE

▪ early , prehistoric , primitive

▪ Stone Age , etc.

▪ Neanderthal , etc.

▪ fellow

How could a human torture his fellow ~?

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~

In ~ the brain is highly developed.

PHRASES

▪ known to ~

the most poisonous substance known to ~

▪ man's inhumanity to ~

It's a powerful indictment of the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to ~.

II.

verb

Man is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ volunteer

Man is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ barricade , ↑ checkpoint , ↑ desk , ↑ gun , ↑ lifeboat , ↑ stall , ↑ stand , ↑ switchboard

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .