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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Famous quotes containing the word man:
“Let a man turn to his own childhood—no further—if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”
—Alice Meynell (1847–1922)
“And the whole of the soul, Swenson,
As every man in Sweden will concede,
Still hankers after lions, or, to shift,
Still hankers after sovereign images.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)