Dictionary entry details
• ADULT MALE (noun)
Meaning:
An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
adult male; man
Context example:
there were two women and six men on the bus
Hypernyms ("adult male" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Meronyms (parts of "adult male"):
adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adult male"):
young buck; young man (a teenager or a young adult male)
graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; old man (a man who is very old)
old boy; old man (a familiar term of address for a man)
Monsieur (used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr')
middle-aged man (a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old)
adonis (any handsome young man)
junior (the younger of two men)
ironside (a man of great strength or bravery)
iron man; ironman (a strong man of exceptional physical endurance)
inamorato (a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship)
ex; ex-husband (a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband)
hunk (a well-built sexually attractive man)
housefather (a man in charge of children in an institution)
paterfamilias; patriarch (the male head of family or tribe)
Peter Pan (a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up)
golden boy; wonder boy (a man who is unusually successful at an early age)
philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)
widower; widowman (a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried)
Tarzan ((sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs))
he-man; macho-man; stud (a man who is virile and sexually active)
stiff (an ordinary man)
sir (term of address for a man)
signore (an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English 'sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name))
signior; signor (used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately)
shaver (an adult male who shaves)
Senhor (a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English 'Mr')
posseman (an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse)
Hooray Henry (a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man)
Herr (a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English)
bruiser; bull; Samson; strapper (a large and strong and heavyset man)
exboyfriend (a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend)
beau; boyfriend; fellow; swain; young man (a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman)
boy (a friendly informal reference to a grown man)
bey ((formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt)
bachelor; unmarried man (a man who has never been married)
baboo; babu (used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr')
yellow man (offensive term for an Oriental man)
white man (a man who is White)
Black man (a man who is Black)
ejaculator (a man who ejaculates semen)
Esq; Esquire (a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name)
castrate; eunuch (a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction)
bozo; cat; guy; hombre (an informal term for a youth or man)
divorced man; grass widower (a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife)
gentleman (a man of refinement)
bloke; geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
galoot (a disreputable or clumsy man)
beau; clotheshorse; dandy; dude; fashion plate; fop; gallant; sheik; swell (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)
buster; dude; fellow (an informal form of address for a man)
father-figure (a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically)
father figure; father surrogate (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)
Instance hyponyms:
Cain ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God)
Abel ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain)
Seth ((Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel)
Ham ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
Adam ((Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race)
Japheth ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
Shem ((Old Testament) eldest son of Noah)
