Man (disambiguation)
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- 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 Mannaz for etymology:
- Human, humans considered as a species
- Homo (genus), humans and their close relatives considered as a genus
- First man or woman, found in mythical traditions of human origins
- The Man, derisive slang phrase used to describe higher authority
Man and in some cases Men may refer to:
- In Celtic mythology, the sea god Manannan
[edit] Geographical
- Isle of Man, British Isles
- Man, Côte d'Ivoire
- Man, West Virginia, United States
- Manchu ethnic group of Manchuria, China, also called Man
- Man., abbreviation for Manitoba, Canada
[edit] Acronyms MAN
- Metropolitan area network, large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city
- MAN AG (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg), a German engineering and manufacturing company (trucks to printing presses)
- Manchester Airport, IATA airport code
[edit] Other
- Man or Men, chess piece(s)
- Man, the former name of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Man (band), from Wales
- Man Group plc is a financial services company
- man pages, manual pages of Unix commands, functions, or files
- Männer... (Men...), German film from 1985 by Doris Dörrie (IMDB entry)
- MEN, Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Mensa (constellation), abbreviated as Men