Emily Dickinson Lexicon

man (-'s, men), n. [OE.] (webplay: adorn, armed, beast, boy, brave, cultivate, cunning, death, deity, die, drunken, emperor, escape, fellow, frugal, gain, giants, gods, growth, harm, himself, humble, independent, live, loved, obtain, oppressed, precarious, prudent, qualified, run, secret, silent, straight, strength, tyrannies, weary, wise, woman).

1. Mortal; being who is subject to death.
2. Worker; laborer; fieldhand; farmer.
3. Poet; dramatist; playwright; thinker.
4. Husband; bridegroom; male spouse.
5. Humankind; the human race; [metonymy] society; civilization.
6. Boss; hirer; employer; manager; supervisor.
7. Groom; [fig.] king; emperor.
8. God; Creator; the Omnipotent.
9. Male individual; complement of female person.
10. Savior; Redeemer; Holy One; Supreme Being; Anointed Son of God; [lit.] Jesus Christ (see John 19:5).
11. Fellow; chap; gent; lad; youth; bachelor; unmarried young adult male.
12. Manly person; [fig.] hero; champion; God; strong, brave, and victorious male individual who has passed life's challenges.
13. Deity; god; [personification] Helios; Apollo.
14. Adult senior male; male human of mature years.
15. Ordinary people; common folk.
16. Person; human being; member of the human race; one belonging to the species of human beings.
17. Phrase. “Fellow men/man”: neighbor; compatriot; acquaintance; associate, whether male or female.
18. Phrase. “No Man”: noone; nobody; not anyone.
19. Phrase. “every man”: everyone; everybody; all people in general.