In English, lower case man (pl. men) refers to an adult human male (the term boy is the usual term for a human male child or adolescent). Although men typically have a male reproductive system, some intersex people with ambiguous genitals, and biologically female transgender people, may also be classified or self-identify as a "man".
The term manhood is used to refer to masculinity, the various qualities and characteristics attributed to men such as strength and male sexuality.
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“GOOD FREND FOR JESVS SAKE
FORBEARE
TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED
HEARE
BLESE BE YE MAN YT
SPARES THES STONES
AND CURST BE HE YT
MOVES MY BONES”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“While man can still his body keep
Wine or love drug him to sleep,
Waking he thanks the Lord that he
Has body and its stupidity....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A man with a virtuous wife will have few troubles.”
—Chinese proverb.