English > adult male: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman). |
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| Synonym | man |
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| Instances | Abel | (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man |
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| Adam | (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology |
| Cain | (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man |
| Ham | (Old Testament) son of Noah |
| Japheth | (Old Testament) son of Noah |
| Seth | (Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve |
| Shem | (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah |
| Parts | adult male body, man's body | The body of an adult man |
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| Narrower | Esquire, Esq | A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight |
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| Herr | A German man |
| Hooray Henry | A lively and ineffectual upper-class young man |
| Monsieur | Used as a French courtesy title |
| Peter Pan | A boyish or immature man |
| Senhor | A Portuguese title of respect |
| Tarzan | (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs) |
| adonis | Any handsome young man |
| babu, baboo | Used as a Hindi courtesy title |
| bachelor, unmarried man | A man who has never / never been married |
| bey | (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt |
| boy | A friendly informal reference to a grown man |
| boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain | A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman |
| bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson | A large and strong and heavyset man |
| dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse | A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance |
| ejaculator | A man who ejaculates semen |
| eunuch, castrate | A man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction |
| ex-boyfriend | A man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend |
| ex-husband, ex | A man who was formerly a certain woman's husband |
| father-figure | A man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically |
| father figure, father surrogate | A man who takes over all the functions of the real father |
| fellow, dude, buster | An informal form of address for a man |
| galoot | A disreputable or clumsy man |
| geezer | A man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric |
| gentleman | A man of refinement |
| grass widower, divorced man | A man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife |
| guy, cat, hombre, bozo, sod | An informal British term for a youth or man |
| housefather | A man in charge of children in an institution |
| hunk | A well-built sexually attractive man |
| inamorato | A man with whom you are in love or have an intimate / intimate relationship |
| iron man, ironman | A strong man of exceptional physical endurance |
| ironside | A man of great strength or bravery |
| middle-aged man | A man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old |
| old boy, old man | A familiar term of address for a man |
| old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah | A man who is very old |
| patriarch, paterfamilias | The male head of family or tribe / tribe |
| ponce | A man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses |
| posseman | An able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse |
| shaver | An adult male who shaves |
| signor, signior | Used as an Italian courtesy title |
| signore | An Italian title of respect for a man |
| sir | Term of address for a man |
| stiff | An ordinary man |
| stud, he-man, macho-man | A man who is virile and sexually active |
| white man | A man who is White |
| widower, widowman | A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried |
| womanizer, womaniser, philanderer | A man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them |
| wonder boy, golden boy | A man who is unusually successful at an early age |
| young buck, young man | A teenager or a young adult male |
| Broader | adult, grownup | A fully developed person from maturity onward |
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| male, male person | A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
| Opposite | woman, adult female | An adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
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| Spanish | hombre adulto, hombre, varón |
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| Catalan | baró, home adult, home, mascle |
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