mans

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See also: Mans, MANs, mäns, måns, Måns, and -mans

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mænz/
  • Rhymes: -ænz
  • Audio (US):(file)

Verb

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mans

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of man
    Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?

Noun

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mans

  1. (MLE, MTE, nonstandard, proscribed) plural of man
    • 2014, Robb Peters, D.A. Diary, Bloomington: AuthorHouse:
      Down the Ice Arena we met up with bare mans then Dot came with us and we bopped to the Orchard.
  2. (obsolete) genitive of man
    • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, [], London: [] Iohn Day, [], →OCLC, book I, page [28]:
      And symony they called this, to take and inioy any spirituall liuing at a secular mans hand.
    • 1594, H[ugh] Plat, Diuerse New Sorts of Soyle Not Yet Brought into Any Publique Vse, for Manuring Both of Pasture and Arable Ground, with Sundrie Concepted Practises Belonging Therunto, London: [] Peter Short, page 8:
      But vnto man, and to diuers other land Creatures, the eating of much ſalt is very contagious, becauſe it maketh the bloud ſalt, and it breedes barenneſſe to mans bodie by the extreame ſiccitie thereof, and it maketh our ſeed ornature too ſharpe, but the ſame being moderatly taken, is very ſtirring in our bodies, and prouoketh them to venerious actes, whereby it helpeth to the generation of mankind.
    • 1596, Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America[1], London: John Busbie:
      The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls [] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,

Noun

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mans (singular only)

  1. (slang) Synonym of man
    Whose mans is this?

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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mans

  1. plural of man

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mānsus, from Latin mānsuetus.

Adjective

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mans (feminine mansa, masculine plural mansos, feminine plural manses)

  1. tame
    Synonyms: manso, mansoi, mansuet, manyac
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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mans

  1. plural of
  2. (castells, invariable f.pl.) a casteller positioned behind the baix (also in front of the baix in the case of a pilar) and helping to support the segon, or a casteller in the pinya positioned behind these mans
  3. (castells, invariable f.pl.) any of the castellers helping to support the segons with their hands, including the mans as defined above, the vents, and the laterals
  4. (castells, invariable f.pl.) in a construction built without a pinya, a casteller who stands around the base with arms raised and braced to provide safety in case of a fall; the act of doing this

Further reading

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Cornish

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Etymology

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From Old French mans from Latin mancus.

Adjective

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mans

  1. crippled, maimed

Noun

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mans m (plural mansyon)

  1. amputee, cripple

Mutation

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Danish

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Noun

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mans c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of man

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mans

  1. (dated, nautical, dialect) plural of man

Faroese

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Noun

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mans

  1. genitive singular of maður

Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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mans

  1. plural of man

Galician

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Noun

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mans m pl

  1. plural of man

Gothic

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Romanization

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mans

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍃

Ladin

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Noun

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mans

  1. plural of man

Latvian

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Pronoun

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mans (possessive, 1st person singular)

  1. my, mine

Declension

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Derived terms

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Maltese

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Root
m-n-s
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sicilian manzu, mansu.

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Adjective

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mans (feminine singular mansa, plural mansi)

  1. domesticated, tame
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Spanish

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Noun

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mans m pl

  1. plural of man

Swedish

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Noun

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mans

  1. indefinite genitive singular of man

Volapük

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Noun

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mans

  1. nominative plural of man