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# men

«men» in Mova's school dictionary: **Plural of «man»: adult male people** — 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 (men – the plural of «man»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Plural of «man»: adult male people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#m1)

2) People in general, in old-fashioned writing: «all men are created equal» (now many people prefer «people» or «everyone»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#m2)

3) Soldiers or workers under a leader: «the captain and his men». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#m3)

4) Pieces in some board games: «chessmen», «the men in draughts». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: «men's toilets», «men and women», «men's football». In history texts you will meet «men» meaning all people, and «the king and his men». In maths problems: «3 men can paint a fence in 6 hours» – such problems are about rate of work. In games, draughts (checkers) pieces are called men. Phrases: «men and women», «the men's team», «one of the men».

### examples

- Two men were fixing the road outside school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x1)
- The men's race starts at ten o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x2)
- The captain led his men across the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x3)
- «All men are created equal» is a famous line from 1776. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x4)
- My dad plays in a men's football team on Sundays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x5)
- In draughts, each player starts with twelve men. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x6)
- Men and women can both be nurses, pilots and engineers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x7)
- If 2 men can build a wall in 6 days, 4 men might do it in 3 days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/men/#x8)

### note

Irregular plural: one man, two men (not «mans»). Possessive: «men's» (not «mens'»): «the men's room». Similarly woman → women. In maths work problems, more workers usually means less time (inverse proportion), if they work at the same rate.

### In the corpora

- [Red-green colour blindness affects about 1 in 12 men of European descent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/15/)
- [Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sensible.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/37/)
- [The poem: "I keep six honest serving-men ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/18/)
- [The Head Chief says Taffy has made a great invention which men will one day call writing, though pictures are not always understood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/6/)
- [The Head Chief: «It is a great invention, and some day men will call it writing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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