Man (disambiguation)

A man is an adult male human.

• Depending on the context Man and its irregular Germanic plural Men may be used irrespective of age, or as an opposite to boy (in its normal sense restricted to male minors) only for adult men.
• The same word can also be used irrespective of sex, especially in scientific and poetic language; see Man (word) for etymology:
  • Homo (genus), humans and their close relatives considered as a genus
  • Human, humans considered as a species
  • Human resources, as in the verbal expression to man
• First man or woman, found in mythical traditions of human origins
• The Man, derisive slang phrase used to describe higher authority

Man

Geographical

• Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea, part of the British Isles
• Man (tehsil), Satara district, Maharashtra, India
• Man, Côte d'Ivoire
• Man, West Virginia, United States
• Man., abbreviation for Manitoba, Canada
• Southern Man (ethnic group), an ancient nomadic group in China

Music

• Man (band), a Welsh progressive rock group
• Man (Man album), an album by Welsh progressive rock group Man
• Man (Neneh Cherry album), the third solo album by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry, released in 1996
• "Man", a song by Level 42 on the album Staring at the Sun
• "Man", a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the album Fever to Tell

Other

• Man (Middle-earth) in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Man (journal) (1901–94), continued by The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• Man (unit), an ancient Arabic and Persian unit of mass, used until the 20th century
• Man or Men, chess piece(s)
• Man(万), common of surname Wan(万) in Mongol and China
• Man(蠻, mán), Barbarian alike wakou in Hangzhou, Yellow Sea of china
• Man Group plc is a financial services company
• Man page, one of the collection of manual pages of commands, functions, or files on Unix and Unix-like operating systems
• Man O Man, a television gameshow series
• Man United and Man City short for Manchester United and Manchester City
• Ultraman, ofter referred to as "Man"

Man and in some cases Men may refer to:

• In Celtic mythology, the sea god Manannan

MAN

Acronyms

• MAN SE (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg), a Munich-based German engineering and manufacturing company best known for its buses and heavy trucks.
• Marea Adunare Naţională, the Great National Assembly in Communist Romania
• Metropolitan area network, large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city
• Mongolian People's Party, a political party in Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Ардын Нам)

Other

• Manchester Airport, IATA airport code
• Manchester Piccadilly station, England; National Rail station code MAN.
• The stock symbol of Manpower, Inc., an American employment agency
• Man pages, the UNIX documentation system

See also

• Men (disambiguation)
• Gentleman
• Masculinity

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