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# human

«human» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person: a man, woman or child** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a human, humans); adjective (human, the human body)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A human is a person: a man, woman or child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#m1)

2) Human describes things to do with people: the human body, human rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#m2)

3) Human can mean having normal feelings and weaknesses: It is only human to make mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, humans are mammals and part of the animal kingdom (scientific name Homo sapiens); lessons study the human body and its organs. In history and geography: how humans live and change the world. In stories, robots, aliens and animals often want to be human. Phrases: human being, human body, human race, human rights, only human.

### examples

- Humans need food, water and sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x1)
- The human body has 206 bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x2)
- Dogs can hear sounds that humans cannot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x3)
- Making mistakes is only human. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x4)
- Every human has the right to be safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x5)
- The robot wanted to be human. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x6)
- Humans have lived on Earth for a very long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x7)
- Is that a human footprint? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x8)
- "Ah, wretch of a human being! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/#x9)

### note

Countable as a noun. Do not confuse with humane (kind, causing as little pain as possible). Humans are animals in science, even though in everyday speech «animals» often means other animals.

### In the corpora

- [Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/19/)
- [Bots often give the most common human answer, so many of them pick 7 when asked for a number from 1 to 10.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/12/)
- [Many things people love depend on bodies, feelings and being human, such as watching people play sport.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/9/)
- [It is a myth that people came from chimps: chimps and humans are cousins who both changed from a common ancestor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/7/)
- [A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «human» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/human/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.