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MEN'S
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public toilet for men
Synonyms:
men's; men's room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("men's" is a kind of...):
comfort station; convenience; public convenience; public lavatory; public toilet; restroom; toilet facility; wash room (a toilet that is available to the public)
Context examples:
The Admiral hates trouble, and scorns asking favours; and there are so many young men's claims to be attended to in the same way, that a friendship and energy, not very determined, is easily put by.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Nay; it was men's work.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And yet, he knew not why, there seemed something vital about the stuff of these men's thoughts.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is men's duty towards those whom they love, in such times of sore trial!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Oh! dear! one never thinks of married men's being beaux—they have something else to do.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
At first, the killing of the white men's dogs had been a diversion.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Hans still refused to touch the murderer, and sullenly watched Edith drag him across the floor to the men's bunk- room.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Countryman Lawrence Cherono won the men's division.
(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)
Yet, frail as was his person there gleamed out ever and anon from under his drooping brows a flash of fierce energy, which recalled to men's minds that he came of a fighting stock, and that even now his twin-brother, Sir Bartholomew Berghersh, was one of the most famous of those stern warriors who had planted the Cross of St. George before the gates of Paris.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It's a bad job, he said, when I had done; but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
