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TAKE THE QUIZ“man of”
The following 20 entries include the term man of.
man of color
noun: a man whose skin pigmentation is other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white (see white entry 1 sense 2a) : a man who is of a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) other than white or who is of mixed race
man of God
noun phraseman of letters
noun phraseman of straw
noun phraseman of the house
noun phrase: the chief male in a household
man of the world
noun phrase: a practical or worldly-wise man of wide experience
man-of-war
noun: a combatant warship of a recognized navy
Portuguese man-of-war
noun: any of a genus (Physalia of the family Physaliidae) of large, tropical and subtropical, pelagic, siphonophore hydrozoans having a crested bladderlike float which bears the colony comprised of three types of zooids on the lower surface with one of the three having nematocyst-equipped tentacles
man-of-all-work
noun: a domestic employee who performs all kinds of work and services about the home
man of law
man of parts
: a talented or gifted man : a man of notable endowments or capacity
man-of-the-earth
noun: an American morning glory (Ipomoea pandurata) having an enormous starchy root
man of the woods
man-of-war fish
noun: a small fish (Nomeus gronovii) of the family Nomeidae that is common in the Gulf of Mexico and that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese man-of-war fish
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