man; adult male




an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

"there were two women and six men on the bus"

Antonym:
  • woman; adult female

Type of:
  • male; male person
  • adult; grownup

Types:
  • Black man
  • white man
  • yellow man
  • babu; baboo
  • bachelor; unmarried man
  • bey
  • boy
  • boyfriend; fellow; beau; swain; young man
  • ex-boyfriend
  • bull; bruiser; strapper; Samson
  • dandy; dude; fop; gallant; sheik; beau; swell; fashion plate; clotheshorse
  • ejaculator
  • Esquire; Esq
  • eunuch; castrate
  • father figure; father surrogate
  • father-figure
  • fellow; dude; buster
  • galoot
  • geezer
  • gentleman
  • grass widower; divorced man
  • guy; cat; hombre; bozo
  • Herr
  • Hooray Henry
  • housefather
  • hunk
  • ex-husband; ex
  • inamorato
  • iron man; ironman
  • ironside
  • adonis
  • middle-aged man
  • Monsieur
  • old boy; old man
  • old man; greybeard; graybeard; Methuselah
  • patriarch; paterfamilias
  • Peter Pan
  • ponce
  • posseman
  • Senhor
  • shaver
  • signor; signior
  • signore
  • sir
  • stiff
  • stud; he-man; macho-man
  • Tarzan
  • widower; widowman
  • womanizer; womaniser; philanderer
  • wonder boy; golden boy
  • young buck; young man


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