{
    "term": "man",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an adult male human",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a good-looking young man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the relationships between men and women"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the men's team/game/race/doubles/singles/event"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The board of directors is dominated by middle-aged white men."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was one of the great men of history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Four armed men burst into the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An elderly Indian man sat down beside me and recounted his story."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is an average working man trying to make ends meet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The men's team won their third gold medal last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The picture shows a man in his thirties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the man she sits next to at work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I gave some money to a homeless man in the park."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is he the funniest man on earth?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He walked out of court a free man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a lucky man to have found such a partner."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr Locke is a man of means who owns a vast business empire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police have arrested two men and a woman."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was helped by two burly men with tattoos."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over 150 men, women and children were killed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several people made speeches in honour of the great man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Vincente is a wanted man back in his own country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What a horrible man!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "men in grey suits"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a little old man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a middle-aged, balding man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Only the dead man's young son knows what happened."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages", "People in society"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["elderly", "middle-aged", "old"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "humans as a group, both male and female",
            "labels": "British EnglishNorth American English",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the damage caused by man to the environment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**The common man** *(= ordinary people)* is losing faith in democratic institutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the most poisonous substance known to man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a powerful indictment of the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In man the brain is highly developed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The working man wants more and better jobs."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "prehistoric", "primitive"],
                "preposition": ["in man"],
                "phrases": ["known to man", "man’s inhumanity to man"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person, either male or female",
            "labels": "(literary or old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All men must die."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How could a human torture his fellow man?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "While no man is an island, we do function independently for the most part."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["early", "prehistoric", "primitive"],
                "preposition": ["in man"],
                "phrases": ["known to man", "man’s inhumanity to man"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "humans from a particular period of history",
            "labels": "British EnglishNorth American English",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "early/modern/Prehistoric man"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a man who comes from the place mentioned or whose job or interest is connected with the thing mentioned",
            "labels": "British EnglishNorth American English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a Frenchman"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sportsman"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a businessman"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a medical man"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a man who likes or who does the thing mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a betting/fighting man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I do drink tea at night but I'm a coffee man during the day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've never been a gambling man."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a man who works for or supports a particular organization, comes from a particular town, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the BBC’s man in Moscow *(= the man who reports on news from Moscow)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a loyal Republican Party man"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "a soldier or a male worker who obeys the instructions of a person of higher rank",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The officer refused to let his men take part in the operation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The conditions in which the men were working were terrible."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["elderly", "middle-aged", "old"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "a man who comes to your house to do a job",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the gas man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The man's coming to repair the TV today."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "used for addressing a male person",
            "labels": "(especially North American English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Nice shirt, man!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hey man. Back off!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 11,
            "definition": "used for addressing a male person in an angry or impatient way",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't just stand there, man—get a doctor!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 12,
            "definition": "a person's husband, boyfriend or male partner",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What's her new man like?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I now pronounce you man and wife *(= you are now officially married)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 13,
            "definition": "a person who is strong and brave or has other qualities that some people think are typically male",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Come on, now—be a man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's more of a man than he is."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 14,
            "definition": "a group or person that is thought to be in authority or control, especially the police or white people in government",
            "labels": "(North American English, informal, old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Activists marched to the police station to voice their displeasure with the Man."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 15,
            "definition": "a male servant",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My man will drive you home."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 16,
            "definition": "one of the figures or objects that you play with in a game such as chess",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "with everyone doing or thinking the same thing at the same time; in agreement",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The crowd rose to their feet as one man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The staff speak as one man on this issue."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to please everyone by changing your attitudes or opinions to suit different people",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be understood or used in different ways by different people",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be the best or most suitable person to do a particular job, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For a superb haircut, David's your man."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be strong or brave enough",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was not man enough to face up to his responsibility."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to act or think independently, not following others or being ordered",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Working for himself meant that he could be his own man."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "people must take care of themselves and not give or expect any help",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In business, it's every man for himself."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who is respected in a particular profession that he has been involved in for a long time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "James Lovelock, the grand old man of environmental science"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "with a lot of force or energy",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He flew out of the room like a man possessed."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make a young man develop and become more adult",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They thought the army would make a man of him."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who frequently goes to fashionable parties, clubs, theatres, etc.",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In his new suit, he looked quite the man about town."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man/woman who likes the same things or has the same opinions as you",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "from when somebody was young to when they were old or older",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's been doing the same job for 50 years—man and boy."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an average or ordinary person, either male or female",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Politicians often don't understand the views of the man in the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What really matters to the man and woman in the street?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a religious man, especially a priest or a clergyman",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, formal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who is chosen as having given the best performance in a game of football (soccer), cricket, etc.",
            "labels": "(British English, sport)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Stokes was named man of the match."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the man who is the best at a particular point in time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Man of the moment Tom Ford greets the crowd at the end of his show."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person with many skills",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man/woman who understands and supports ordinary people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is not only a statesman, but also a man of the people."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a rich and powerful man or woman",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person with a lot of experience of life, who is not easily surprised or shocked",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a way of describing a dog",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person’s home is a place where they can be private and safe and do as they like",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a man who is more popular with men than with women",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "between two men who are treating each other honestly and equally",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm telling you all this man to man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a man-to-man talk"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who is in danger because their enemies want to harm them",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He has been a marked man since he decided to cooperate with the police."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the average person",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can enjoy a joke **as well as the next man**, but this is going too far."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is different from others or does not fit easily into a group or set",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At school he was always the odd man out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dog, cat, horse, shoe—which is the odd one out?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that different people like different things; what one person likes very much, another person does not like at all",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is similar to but of a lower quality than a particular famous person or thing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sparkling white wine is the poor man's champagne."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to show or prove who is brave, skilful, etc. and who is not",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that something is true of all the people being described",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They answered ‘Yes,’ to a man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were all destroyed, to the last man."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who is determined or wants something very much will succeed",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mæn/",
                "audio": "ma/man/man__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/men/",
                "audio": "me/man/men__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mæn/",
                "audio": "ma/man/man__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/men/",
                "audio": "me/man/men__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English man(n), (plural) menn (noun), mannian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch man, German Mann, and Sanskrit manu ‘mankind’."
}