An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.

To furnish with a servant or servants.

a male, usually but not always older than a "boy"; an authority figure.

an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"

a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"

an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"