Human

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Human \Hu"man\, n.
     A human being. [Colloq.]
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           Sprung of humans that inhabit earth.     --Chapman.
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           We humans often find ourselves in strange position.
                                                    --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Human \Hu"man\, a. [L. humanus; akin to homo man: cf. F. humain.
     See {Homage}, and cf. {Humane}, {Omber}.]
     Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or
     attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race
     of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human
     sacrifices.
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           To err is human; to forgive, divine.     --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  human
       adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature"
       2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6
          monkeys and 2 human subjects"
       3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of
          animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human
          body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: {nonhuman}]
       n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
            [syn: {person}, {individual}, {someone}, {somebody}, {mortal},
             {soul}]
       2: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae [syn: {homo},
           {man}, {human being}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "human":
     Adamite, Adamitic, Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating,
     affectionate, android, anthropocentric, anthropoid,
     anthropological, being, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant,
     bleeding, body, brotherly, cat, chap, character, charitable, child,
     clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, considerate,
     creature, customer, decent, duck, earthling, earthy, ethological,
     fallible, fellow, finite, fleshly, forbearant, forgiving, frail,
     fraternal, generous, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious,
     groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, hominid, homo, homocentric,
     human being, humane, humanistic, humanitarian, individual, joker,
     kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, lenient, life,
     living soul, loving, magnanimous, man, man-centered, mankind,
     manlike, melting, merciful, mortal, nice, nose, one, only human,
     party, person, personage, personality, pitying, ruthful, sensitive,
     single, soft, softhearted, somebody, someone, soul, sympathetic,
     sympathizing, tellurian, tender, tenderhearted, terran, unangelic,
     understanding, vulnerable, warm, warmhearted, weak, woman,
     worldling