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MAN'S BODY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does man's body mean?
• MAN'S BODY (noun)
The noun MAN'S BODY has 1 sense:
1. the body of an adult man
Familiarity information: MAN'S BODY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of an adult man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("man's body" is a kind of...):
adult body (the body of an adult human being)
male body (the body of a male human being)
Meronyms (parts of "man's body"):
beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)
Holonyms ("man's body" is a part of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Context examples
Five minutes later the whole weight of the man's body was on top of the wolf.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
For dear Christ's sake, my fair lord, he cried in a crackling voice, I have at my belt a bag with a hundred rose nobles, and I will give it to you freely if you will but pass your sword through this man's body.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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