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man alive

man alive interjection: an expression of marvelment or awe.

Interjection

  1. (dated) An expression of marvelment or awe
    • “She pretty!” “Is she not?” “No.” “Why, man alive, she was the admiration of the whole Court!”1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 59
    • We couldn't hold our own for five minutes. Man alive, they'd overwhelm us like an avalanche. Why don't they make a rush for it? I say——c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...

Numeral

man alive

  1. five

Questions about man alive

What does man alive mean?
Man alive means an expression of marvelment or awe.
What part of speech is man alive?
Man alive can be an interjection or a numeral.

Words near man alive in the dictionary

  1. mamzers
  2. mamzerut
  3. man
  4. man about town
  5. man advantage
  6. man alive
  7. man among men
  8. man and boy
  9. man and wife
  10. man ape
  11. man apes

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