HUMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human mean? 

• HUMAN (noun)
  The noun HUMAN has 1 sense:

1. any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

  Familiarity information: HUMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• HUMAN (adjective)
  The adjective HUMAN has 3 senses:

1. characteristic of humanity

2. relating to a person

3. having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings

  Familiarity information: HUMAN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

homo; human; human being; man

Hypernyms ("human" is a kind of...):

hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)

Meronyms (parts of "human"):

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)

loin; lumbus (either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds)

foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)

human head (the head of a human being)

head of hair; mane (growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being)

body hair (short hair growing over a person's body)

anatomy; bod; build; chassis; figure; flesh; form; frame; human body; material body; physical body; physique; shape; soma (alternative names for the body of a human being)

Domain member category:

side (either the left or right half of a body)

prepubertal; prepubescent ((especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth)

syndactylism; syndactyly (birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes)

hyperdactyly; polydactyly (birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes)

schistosome dermatitis; swimmer's itch (a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes)

nutrition (the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans))

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human"):

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)

Homo erectus (extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain)

Homo soloensis (extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene; Java; formerly Javanthropus)

Homo habilis (extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics)

Homo sapiens (the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc)

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; Neandertal; Neandertal man; Neanderthal; Neanderthal man (extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia)

Homo rhodesiensis; Rhodesian man (a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa)

Holonyms ("human" is a member of...):

genus Homo (type genus of the family Hominidae)

Derivation:

human (having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings)

human (characteristic of humanity)

• HUMAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of humanity

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

human nature

Pertainym:

humanity (the quality of being human)

Derivation:

human (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

humanness (the quality of being human)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to a person

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects

Pertainym:

humanity (the quality of being human)

Derivation:

humanity; humanness (the quality of being human)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings

Context example:

human frailty

Similar:

anthropoid; manlike (resembling human beings)

anthropomorphic; anthropomorphous; humanlike (suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things)

earthborn (springing from or born on the earth)

fallible; frail; imperfect; weak (wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings)

hominal (of humankind as a species)

hominian; hominid (characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures)

hominine (characteristic of humankind)

Attribute:

humanity; humanness; manhood (the quality of being human)

Antonym:

nonhuman (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings)

Derivation:

human (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

humanity; humanness (the quality of being human)

 Context examples 

MEK-1 and MEKK-1 are key components in the RAS/RAF/MEK/MAPK signaling pathway, which regulates cell proliferation and is frequently activated in human cancers.

(MEK-1/MEKK-1 Inhibitor E6201, NCI Thesaurus)

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will see it often in humans.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seems that the humans hold one side of this plateau—over yonder, where you saw the caves—and the ape-men hold this side, and there is bloody war between them all the time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Melanocyte protein Pmel 17 (661 aa, ~70 kDa) is encoded by the human SILV gene.

(Melanocyte Protein Pmel 17, NCI Thesaurus)

"What he needs is some show of human kindness," he added, turning and going into the cabin.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Here all is softness and gentleness. Neither the human nor nature is savage. He will never know a whip-lash again. And as for the weather—why, it never snows here.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

One of the agents used to treat the ova was messenger RNA from the human Kdm4d gene.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

Encoded by human AKAP12 Gene, A Kinase Anchor Protein 12 is expressed in endothelial cells, but not in platelets or peripheral blood cells.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus)