men

M3E1N1
/mɛn/pin pen merger/mɪn/

noun

(The) people, humanity, man(kind).

“"Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.”

Very commonScrabble 5

Meanings

men1

noun
  1. pluralplural of man

    This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

    1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
nounmen pl (plural only)
  1. collectivedatedpluralplural onlyfantasy(The) people, humanity, man(kind).

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    1776 July 4, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
  2. collectivedatedpluralplural onlygovernmentEnlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).

    "Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.

MEN2

noun
  1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of multiple endocrine neoplasia.

Men3

proper noun
  1. A god once worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia, and associated with lunar symbolism.
proper nounMen (plural Mens)

plural Mens

proper noun
  1. The twentieth letter of the Armenian alphabet.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe force of workers available

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*mann-“person”
  2. Proto-Germanic*manniz
  3. Old Englishmenn“people”
  4. Middle Englishmen
  5. Englishmen

From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.

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Translations

Arabic نَاس
  • نَاس (nās)human people
Catalan homes
  • homeshuman people
Chinese Mandarin 人們 /人们, 人
  • 人們 /人们 (rénmen)human people
  • 人 (rén)human people
Czech lidé
  • lidéhuman people
Dutch mensen, men
  • mensenhuman people
  • menhuman people
Esperanto homoj
  • homojhuman people
Estonian inimesed, rahvas
  • inimesedhuman people
  • rahvashuman people
Finnish ihmiset
  • ihmisethuman people
French gens, hommes
  • genshuman people
  • hommeshuman people
  • onhuman people
German Menschen, Leute
  • Menschenhuman people
  • Leutehuman people
Greek άνθρωποι
  • άνθρωποι (ánthropoi)human people
Hindi लोग
  • लोग (log)human people
Italian genti
  • gentihuman people
Japanese 人々
  • 人々 (hitobito)human people
Korean 사람들
  • 사람들 (saramdeul)human people
Latin homines
  • homineshuman people
Polish ludzie
  • ludziehuman people
Portuguese homens
  • homenshuman people
Romanian oameni
  • oamenihuman people
Russian лю́ди
  • лю́ди (ljúdi)human people
Slovak ľudia
  • ľudiahuman people
Swahili wabinadamu
  • wabinadamuhuman people
Urdu لوگ
  • لوگ (log)human people

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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