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MAN-CHILD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does man-child mean?
• MAN-CHILD (noun)
The noun MAN-CHILD has 1 sense:
1. a child who is male
Familiarity information: MAN-CHILD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A child who is male
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
male offspring; man-child
Hypernyms ("man-child" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "man-child"):
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