{
  "id": "man.human",
  "term": "man",
  "sense": "human",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an adult person that is not a female",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "adult.person",
      "female.sex",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the adult person persists through time and differs from the female matter, producing a male adult",
    "novel_properties": [
      "male gender",
      "social role as adult male"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, NASA identified astronaut Neil Armstrong's medical records as belonging to a man, based on sex classification at birth and adulthood.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1832 Reform Act in Britain defined voting rights using 'man' as a legal category excluding women and children.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "At the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, player Novak Djokovic competed in the men's singles division, classified by sex and age.",
      "domain": "sports"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "adult.person",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "female.sex",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "man",
    "men"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-man.human"
}