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:
“Friends, I owe more tears
To this dead man than you shall see me pay.
I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.”
—Augusto Roa Bastos (b. 1917)
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.”
—John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)