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ADULT MALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
Example:
there were two women and six men on the bus
Synonyms:
adult male; man
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("adult male" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Meronyms (parts of "adult male"):
adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adult male"):
housefather (a man in charge of children in an institution)
hunk (a well-built sexually attractive man)
ex; ex-husband (a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband)
inamorato (a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship)
iron man; ironman (a strong man of exceptional physical endurance)
ironside (a man of great strength or bravery)
adonis (any handsome young man)
middle-aged man (a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old)
Monsieur (used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr')
old boy; old man (a familiar term of address for a man)
graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)
paterfamilias; patriarch (the male head of family or tribe)
Peter Pan (a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up)
ponce (a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses)
posseman (an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse)
Senhor (a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English 'Mr')
shaver (an adult male who shaves)
signior; signor (used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately)
signore (an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English 'sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name))
sir (term of address for a man)
stiff (an ordinary man)
he-man; macho-man; stud (a man who is virile and sexually active)
Tarzan ((sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs))
widower; widowman (a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried)
philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)
golden boy; wonder boy (a man who is unusually successful at an early age)
young buck; young man (a teenager or a young adult male)
white man (a man who is White)
baboo; babu (used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr')
bachelor; unmarried man (a man who has never been married)
bey ((formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt)
boy (a friendly informal reference to a grown man)
beau; boyfriend; fellow; swain (a man who is the lover of a man or woman)
ex-boyfriend (a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend)
bruiser; bull; Samson; strapper (a large and strong and heavyset man)
beau; clotheshorse; dandy; dude; fashion plate; fop; gallant; sheik; swell (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)
ejaculator (a man who ejaculates semen)
Esq; Esquire (a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name)
castrate; eunuch (a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction)
Hooray Henry (a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man)
Herr (a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English)
bozo; cat; guy; hombre; sod (an informal term for a youth or man)
divorced man; grass widower (a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife)
gentleman (a man of refinement)
geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
galoot (a disreputable or clumsy man)
buster; dude; fellow (an informal form of address for a man)
father-figure (a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically)
father figure; father surrogate (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)
Instance hyponyms:
Japheth ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
Shem ((Old Testament) eldest son of Noah)
Ham ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
Seth ((Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel)
Abel ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain)
Cain ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God)
Adam ((Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race)
