mann

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noun

A fairy chess piece that can move to any adjacent square. It moves like a king but is not a royal piece.

OriginGerman Mann →
CommonScrabble 6
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Meanings

mann1

nounmann (plural manns or mannen)

plural manns · plural mannen

  1. board gamesA fairy chess piece that can move to any adjacent square. It moves like a king but is not a royal piece.

    The mann moves like a king but is not royal; he cannot castle and he’s allowed to be captured. The mann is most popular for chess theorists who wish to discuss the king as an attacking piece, or for chess puzzles that wish to use a non-royal king.

    2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF

Mann2

proper noun
  1. A surname from German.
  2. A surname from Punjabi.
  3. The Isle of Man.
  4. A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which joins the Clarence River.

Mann3

nounMann (plural Manns)

plural Manns · alternative Man

  1. Descendants of Burmese people who settled in Northeast India.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
isle of man

Origin

mann · noun

  1. GermanMann“man”
  2. Englishmann

Borrowed from German Mann (“man”). Doublet of man and Manu.

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Mann · proper noun

As a German surname, from the root of man.

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Mann · noun

  1. asমান
  2. asমান
  3. EnglishMann

Borrowed from Assamese মান (man, “Burmese”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with mann

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Cite this entry
APA

mann. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mann

MLA

“mann.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mann. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mann,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mann.

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