human
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞oʹmən
ipa: /ˈhjuː.mən/
ipa: [ˈçju̟mən]
ipa: [ˈçju̟mn̩]
note: New York City, some other dialects
ipa: /ˈju.mən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: more human
form: most human
form: humane
Etymology: From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Not etymologically related to man.
Senses: examples: text: Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt / Their angry ſeedes at his conception: / For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race, / Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride, / He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
text: [N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
ref: 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] V. Of the Second Advantage, Wealth.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
examples: text: To err is human; to forgive, divine.
text: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’, Business World, Wall Street Journal,
Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.
glosses: Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
Synonyms: word: mannish
word: mennish
Hypernyms: english: in its sense including all Animalia
translation: in its sense including all Animalia
word: animalian
word: mammalian
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: abhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: ahuman
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word: antehuman
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word: anti-human
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word: antihuman
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word: chuman
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word: countryhuman
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word: demihuman
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word: economic human
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word: European early modern human
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word: extrahuman
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word: half-human
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word: HIV
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word: hope springs eternal in the human breast
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word: HOV
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word: huboon
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word: hucow
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word: hufu
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word: human African trypanosomiasis
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word: humanation
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word: human bean
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word: human behavior
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word: human being
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word: human betaherpesvirus 5
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word: human billboard
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word: human biodiversity
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word: human blockhead
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word: human body
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word: human botfly
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word: humanburger
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word: human burrito
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word: human calculator
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word: human cannonball
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word: human capital
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word: humancentric
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word: human chain
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word: human chattel
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word: human cheese
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word: human chorionic gonadotropin
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word: human chorionic somatomammotrophin
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word: human chorionic somatomammotropin
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word: human choriosomatomammotrophin
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word: human choriosomatomammotropin
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word: human composting
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word: human-computer interaction
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word: human condition
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word: human development
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word: human directional
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word: human-dominated
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word: human dross
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word: human enhancement
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word: human error
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word: humanesque
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word: human factors
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word: human flag
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word: human flea
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word: human-flesh search
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word: human flesh search engine
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word: Human Genome Project
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word: human geographer
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word: human geography
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word: humanhood
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word: humanicide
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word: humanics
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word: humaniform
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word: humanify
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word: humanimal
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word: human immunodeficiency virus
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: human immunodeficiency virus 1
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: human immunodeficiency virus 2
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word: human insulin
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word: human intelligence
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word: human interest
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word: human interface device
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word: humanisation
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word: humanish
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word: humanism
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word: humanist
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word: humanization
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word: humanize
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word: humanizer
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word: human kind
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word: humankind
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word: human knot
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word: humanless
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word: human leukocyte antigen
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word: humanlike
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word: human-like
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word: humanly
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word: humanmade
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word: human-made
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word: human microphone
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word: human milk
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word: human movement
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word: human nature
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word: humanness
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word: human-occupied vehicle
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word: humanoid
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word: humanosphere
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word: human papillomavirus
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word: humanphobe
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word: human potential movement
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word: human-powered
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word: human pyramid
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word: human race
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word: human-readable
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word: human relations
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word: human resource management
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english: HR
translation: HR
word: human resources
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: human resources management
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word: human right
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word: human rights
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word: human-rightism
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word: human-rightist
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word: human roulette wheel
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word: human sacrifice
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word: human safari
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word: human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
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word: human services
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word: humansexual
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word: human shield
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word: human smuggling
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word: human statue
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word: human terrain
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word: human touch
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word: human trafficker
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word: human trafficking
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word: humanure
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word: human wave
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word: humanwise
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word: human year
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word: humanzee
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word: human zoo
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word: humineral
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word: humint
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word: HUMINT
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: huwoman
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word: infrahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: inhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: inhumane
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: interhuman
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word: intrahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: metahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: milk of human kindness
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: modern human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: no human involved
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: nonhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: non-human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: paleohuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: panhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: parahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: posthuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: post-human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: prehuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: preter-human
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word: preterhuman
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word: protohuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: proto-human
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word: pseudohuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: semi-human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: semihuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: socialism with a human face
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: spontaneous human combustion
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word: subhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: suprahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: Team Human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: to err is human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: transhuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: ultrahuman
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: -umab
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: virtual human
sense: Terms derived from the adjective or noun human
word: werehuman
Related terms: humane
humanitarian
humanitarianism
humanity