mens
Meaning
- (masculine) human, any member of the species Homo sapiens
- (masculine) person
Concepts
man
human being
human
person
humanity
humankind
mankind
people
class
family
individual
humanbeing
Skyperson
woman
party
Anthropos
Homo sapiens
human beings
human race
humans
mandom
race
society
fellow
figure
resident
single
soul
community
body
crowd
folk
world
citizen
citizenry
country
public
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɛns/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mensche, from Old Dutch mennisko, a substantivised form of the adjective *mennisk (“human, humanlike”), from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz.
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