he-man
/ˈhiː.mæn/
he-man noun: a strong or virile man.
Noun
he-man (plural he-men)
- A strong or virile man.
- What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIX, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V, page 352
- A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Synonyms:
- macho man
he-man meaning in Malayalam
he-man in Malayalam
- macho man, muscleman, strongman
- ശക്തിമാൻ, കരുത്തൻ, അതിശക്തൻ, ഇഷൻ, ഉരത്തൻ, ഉരത്തവൻ
Synonyms of he-man
Forms of he-man
| plural | he-men |
|---|---|
| alternative misspelling | heman |
Origin of he-man
From he- + man.
Questions about he-man
- What does he-man mean?
- He-man means a strong or virile man.
- What is he-man in Malayalam?
- He-man in Malayalam is ശക്തിമാൻ, കരുത്തൻ, അതിശക്തൻ. See He-man meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is he-man?
- He-man is a noun.
- How do you pronounce he-man?
- He-man is pronounced /ˈhiː.mæn/.
- What is the plural of he-man?
- The plural of he-man is he-men.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: he-man (page history and authors); he-man (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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