Human

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: hu=man

CIDE DICTIONARY

Human, a. [L. humanus; akin to homo man: cf. F. humain. See Homage, and cf. Humane, Omber.].

 Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.  [1913 Webster]
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."  [1913 Webster]

Human, n. 

 A human being.  [1913 Webster]
"Sprung of humans that inhabit earth."  [1913 Webster]
"We humans often find ourselves in strange position."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Human, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or belonging to the genus Homo.
2 consisting of human beings (the human race).
3 of or characteristic of mankind as opposed to God or animals or machines, esp. susceptible to the weaknesses of mankind (is only human).
4 showing (esp. the better) qualities of man (proved to be very human).
--n. a human being.

Idiom

human being any man or woman or child of the species Homo sapiens. human chain a line of people formed for passing things along, e.g. buckets of water to the site of a fire. human engineering
1 the management of industrial labour, esp. as regards man-machine relationships.
2 the study of this. human equation a bias or prejudice. human interest (in a newspaper story etc.) reference to personal experience and emotions etc. human nature the general characteristics and feelings of mankind. human relations relations with or between people or individuals. human rights rights held to be justifiably belonging to any person.

Derivative

humanness n.

Etymology

ME humain(e) f. OF f. L humanus f. homo human being

THESAURUS

Human

Adamite, Adamitic, Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, affectionate, android, anthropocentric, anthropoid, anthropological, being, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, bleeding, body, brotherly, cat, chap, character, charitable, child, clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, considerate, creature, customer, decent, duck, earthling, earthy, ethological, fallible, fellow, finite, fleshly, forbearant, forgiving, frail, fraternal, generous, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal, hominid, homo, homocentric, human being, humane, humanistic, humanitarian, individual, joker, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, lenient, life, living soul, loving, magnanimous, man, man-centered, mankind, manlike, melting, merciful, mortal, nice, nose, one, only human, party, person, personage, personality, pitying, ruthful, sensitive, single, soft, softhearted, somebody, someone, soul, sympathetic, sympathizing, tellurian, tender, tenderhearted, terran, unangelic, understanding, vulnerable, warm, warmhearted, weak, woman, worldling

ROGET THESAURUS

Human

Animality

N animality, animal life, animation, animality, animalization, animalness, corporeal nature, human system, breath, flesh, flesh and blood, physique, strength, fleshly, human, corporeal.

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.