Also Man. In abstract or generic sense. Now only without article. The human race or species; mankind, humankind (personified as an individual); (Z…

The human race; humankind as a whole; human society.

That which has corporeal life. all flesh, †each flesh (omnis caro, Vulgate = Hebraistic Greek πᾶσα σάρξ): all animals; in narrower sense, all…

The human race, humankind.

The inhabitants of the world collectively.

= microcosm, n., now esp. in sense 2.

= mankind, n. 1.

The human species. As a collective noun: human beings in general.

The realm of human existence.

figurative. Applied disparagingly to the human body, to man in general, or to single persons.

Humankind. Obsolete.

The body of living persons in general; society at large, the public; public opinion. Chiefly with the.

The (human) race. Obsolete. rare.

Human beings collectively; the human race.

Human nature or experience considered as representing the counterpart in miniature of divine or universal nature (opposed to macrocosm); the human…

In singular. With plural agreement. In emphatic use: human beings, as opposed to animals, spirits, etc.

A group of people descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor; a clan, tribe, etc.; = kin, n.1 1, kind, n. 10a. Also in the human kindred…

Any of the major divisions into which living creatures may be separated. (Chiefly not in technical… The class of humans; humankind. Formerly…

A human being; humankind. Obsolete.

The human race; mankind.

The entirety or sum total of something, esp. the whole body of a nation, humankind, etc., regarded collectively; (also) the majority or main body of…

absol. A mortal; usually as plural. Mortals, human beings. Obsolete.

Mortals collectively; humankind. Obsolete.

A rational being; spec. a human being, as opposed to an animal. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete.

Similarly applied to man in general or in some special respect.

= microcosm, n. Obsolete.

Mankind; an individual man or men. Also predicatively to be flesh and blood: to be human, have human feelings or weaknesses.

Human beings collectively.

the division of living creatures to which people belong; humankind.

The inhabitants of the earth; the whole of humankind. Cf. world, n. 13. Now chiefly hyperbolical.

In plural, in modern use with the. Chiefly literary. The peoples of the earth; the population of the earth collectively. Obsolete.

The human race. Cf. sense A. 2d. Obsolete. rare.

the species, the human race.

Manhood, humanity; (sometimes) spec. sinful and unregenerate human nature resulting from Adam's disobedience as described in Genesis (cf. Adam, n.1…

Humankind, common humanity. Chiefly in we are all Jock Tamson's bairns (and variants): used to express the belief that all people are equal, or…

People, folk; people in general. Cf. folk, n. 3a.

With plural agreement. Two-handed animals: Cuvier's name for the highest order of Mammalia, of which man is the type and only species.

With the. The average or typical human being; humans collectively, the human race.

With plural agreement. = people, n. (in various senses); spec. (with possessive adjective) one's close friends or associates. Also as a form of…

Human beings. Obsolete. rare.

People, human beings; men.

With pl. concord. The vertebrates, comprising reptiles, birds and mammals, which possess in embryonic life an allantois and an amnion.

The human race; humankind.

= humankind, n.