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humans
[hyoo-muhn or, often, yoo‐] 
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human
[hyoo-muhn or, often, yoo‐]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, Homo sapiens |
| Synonyms: | being, biped, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, wight |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| Antonyms: | abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, creature, human, individual, mortal, party, person, personage, soul |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, fantasy, immateriality, inanimate, thought |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | animal, animateness, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood, growth, human, human being, individual, living, living being, living thing, man, metabolism, mortal, mortal being, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, substantiality, survival, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, vitality, wildlife, woman |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimacy |
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, character, creature, earthling, human, individual, living soul, man, naked ape, party, person, personage, soul, woman |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
| Main Entry: | party |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, human, man, mortal, part, person, personage, somebody, someone, woman |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
| Notes: | people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, gal, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, living soul, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Cro-Magnon man |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Stone Age man |
| Synonyms: | Cro-Magnon, Cro-Magnon race, Homo Sapiens, Paleolithic man, cave dweller, caveman, cavewoman, human |
| Main Entry: | primate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | order of mammals |
| Synonyms: | anthropoid, ape, brachiator, cercopithecoid, chimpanzee, gibbon, gorilla, great ape, hominoid, human, man, monkey, orangutan |
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