Man of letters

Definition

man 1 /mæn/ n ( pl men /men/) ၁။ [C] ေယာက်္ား။ clothes for men. See also DIRTY OLD MAN ၂။ [C] လူ။ All men must die. ❍ FEMALE ၃။ [sing] (without the or a ) (က) လူ။ Man is mortal. (ခ) လူ၊ လူသား။ prehistoric/early/modern man ❍ Renaissance man ❍ the evolution of man. ❍ GENDER ၄။ [C] ခင္ပြန္း။ ေယာက်္ား။ အဆက္။ Who's her new man? ❍ be man and wife (ie be married). ၅။ [C usu pl ] (တပ္သား၊ လုပ္သား စေသာ) ငယ္သား။ officers and men in the army/navy ❍ The foreman gave the men (ie the workers) their instructions. ၆။ [sing] (dated fml) တပည့္လက္သား။ တပည့္။ My man will drive you home. ၇။ [C ] တကၠသိုလ္ဆရာ။ a Cambridge/Yale man. ၈။ [sing] ( infml ) ေဟ့ေကာင္။ ကိုယ့္လူ။ Don't just stand there, man—get a doctor! ၉။ [C] ေယာက်္ား ေကာင္း။ ေယာက်္ားပီသသူ။ Be a man (ie Be brave)! ❍ People admired him and considered him a real man. ❍ She's more of a man than he is. ၁၀။ [C] စစ္တုရင္႐ုပ္၊ က်ား စသည္။ capture all sb's men. See also RIGHT-HAND MAN interj ( infml esp US ) (အံ့ဩမႈ၊ ခ်ီးမြမ္းမႈ စသည္ ျပသည့္အခါ သံုးသည့္ အာေမၮိတ္)။ Man! That's huge! ❏ as one man [ IDM ] တစ္စိတ္တစ္ဝမ္းတည္း။ The staff speak as one man on this issue. ❏ be sb's man [ IDM ] အလိုရိွသူ ျဖစ္သည္။ If you need a driver, I'm your man. ❍ If you want a good music teacher, he's your man. ❏ be man enough(to do sth) [ IDM ] သတၱိရိွသည္။ You're not man enough to fight me! ❏ be one's own man [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္မူႏွင့္ကိုယ္ ေနသည္။ He's his own man, but he doesn't ignore advice. ❍ Working for himself meant that he could be his own man. ❏ every man for himself (and the devil take the hindmost) [ IDM ] ( saying ) မိမိကိုယ္သာ မိမိ ကိုးကြယ္ရာ ျဖစ္ေတာ့သည္။ In business, it's every man for himself. ❏ hit/kick a man when he's down [ IDM ] ေျမနိမ့္ရာ လွံစိုက္။ ေရနစ္သူ ဝါးကူလို႔ထိုး။ ❏ make a man (out) of sb [ IDM ] က်ားက်ားလ်ားလ်ား ျဖစ္လာေအာင္ ေျမေတာင္ေျမႇာက္ေပးသည္။ The army will make a man of him. - man (forming compound ns ) ၁။ (က) (with ns ) …သား။ countryman. (ခ) (with adjs and ns) …သား။ Irishman. ၂။ (with ns) … သမား၊ ေစာင့္၊ မႉး စသည္။ businessman ❍ doorman ❍ milkman. See also -WOMAN ❍ GENDER ❏ a man about town [ IDM ] ၿမိဳ႕အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းႏွင့္ ဝင္ဆံ့သူ။ ❏ man and boy [ IDM ] ငယ္ေမြးၿခံေပါက္အျဖစ္။ He has worked for the firm for thirty years, man and boy. ❏ man-eater n ၁။ လူသားစားတိရစၧာန္။ ၂။ ( joc ) လင္ႏိုင္ေသာ မိန္းမ။ ❏ man-eating adj လူသားစားေသာ။ a man-eating lion/tiger. ❏ man-hour n (usu pl ) လူတစ္ဦး တစ္နာရီအတြင္း လုပ္ႏိုင္ ေသာ လုပ္ငန္းပမာဏ။ The builder reckons 15 man-hours for the job. ❏ the man in the street [ IDM ] သာမန္လူ။ The man in the street is opposed to this idea. ❏ man-made adj သဘာဝမဟုတ္ေသာ၊ လူလုပ္။ man-made fibres/chemicals. ❏ a man of God [ IDM ] ( fml or rhet ) ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး။ ❏ man of letters n စာေရးဆရာ။ စာေပပညာရွင္။ ❏ the man of the match [ IDM ] ( sport ) ထူးခြၽန္ေသာ အားကစားသမား။ be voted man of the match ❍ win the man of the match award. ❏ man-of-war n ( pl men-of-war )( dated ) စစ္သေဘၤာ။ ❏ -manship (forming uncountable ns ) (ေဖာ္ျပထားသည့္ တတ္ကြၽမ္းမႈ၊ ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈ၊ အရည္အခ်င္းရိွမႈကို ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည့္ စကား)။ craftsmanship ❍ sportsmanship. See also -SHIP ❏ a man's man [ IDM ] ေယာက်္ားအခ်င္းခ်င္းပင္ ေလးစား ေလာက္သူ။ ❏ man-size ( also man-sized) adj ေယာက်္ားသံုး၊ ေယာက်္ား စာ စသည္။ a man-size(d) handkerchief/breakfast. ❏ man to man [ IDM ] ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း။ တန္းတူရည္တူ။ Let's talk man to man. ❍ a man-to-man talk. ❏ to a man [ IDM ] လူေစ့တက္ေစ့။ တစ္ေယာက္မက်န္။ To a man, they answered ‘yes’. ❍ They were killed, to a man, in the futile attack. man 2 /mæn/ v ( -nn- ) ~ sth (with sb) လုပ္ကိုင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ တာဝန္ေပးသည္ (သို႔) တာဝန္ယူသည္။ man the boat with a replacement crew ❍ the first manned space flight ❍ Barbara will man the telephone switchboard till we get back.

Examples

1. An ambitious young man
2. A jury of nine men and three women
3. A man’s overcoat
4. A man of 64 (=who is 64 years old)
5. A man likes to have some time to himself.
6. All men are created equal.
7. He always maintained his belief in the goodness of man.
8. The evolution of man
9. [be a man!] : Come on! Be a man!
10. A city man
11. The truck was driven by a 28-year-old Doncaster man.
12. An Oxford man
13. I’m not really a football man. I prefer tennis.
14. Have you met Jessica’s new man?
15. General Hoge ordered his men to take the bridge.
16. The men were threatening to go on strike.
17. The dishwasher man
18. The gas man
19. They sent a man round to look at the sink.
20. He eyed the two CIA men suspiciously.
21. A medical/military man
22. [our man in something] : Our man in Brazil has been watching the situation.
23. Hey man
24. how are you doing?
25. Just get on with it
26. man!