Definition of human
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of humans (see human entry 2)
the human brain human voices problems that have occurred throughout human history
2 : consisting of or involving humans
everyone held hands and made a human chain human interactions human spaceflight
3a : having human form or attributes
the statue is more human than the beings at his feet— Clifton Fadiman
b : representative of or susceptible to the sympathies and frailties of human nature
human kindness a human weakness such an inconsistency is very human— P. E. More
human
nounDefinition of human (Entry 2 of 2)
: a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : a person : man sense 1c —usually plurala disease that affects both humans and animalsincomprehensible to us humans— William James broadly : hominid the least developed of all ancestral humans— A. L. Kroeber
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