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to a man

UK/tuː‿ə ˈmæn//tuː‿ə ˈmæn/

to a man prepositional phrase: including every person; without exception; unanimously.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Including every person; without exception; unanimously.
    • There is hardly a man in the world, one would think so ignorant, as not to know that the ordinary quack-doctors, who publish their great abilities in little brown billets, distributed to all who pass by, are to a man impostors and murderers; […]1712 August 9 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “TUESDAY, July 30, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 444; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V...
    • To a man, Cyrenaica's new landlords insist they are the launchpad for a countrywide liberation, with Tripoli as the capital, not a separatist movement.2011 February 25, “Building a new Libya”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023

to a man meaning in Malayalam

to a man in Malayalam

one and all, without exception, with no exceptions
എല്ലാവരും, ഒന്നൊഴിയാതെ, ഒന്നടങ്കം, മുഴുവനും, ആകമാനം, ആളാംപ്രതി

Origin of to a man

From to (“indicating a limit reached”) + a + man (“adult male human; human regardless of gender or sex”), indicating that something reaches the extent of every individual person.

Words that rhyme with to a man

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Questions about to a man

What does to a man mean?
To a man means including every person; without exception; unanimously.
What is to a man in Malayalam?
To a man in Malayalam is എല്ലാവരും, ഒന്നൊഴിയാതെ, ഒന്നടങ്കം. See To a man meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is to a man?
To a man is a prepositional phrase.
How do you pronounce to a man?
To a man is pronounced /tuː‿ə ˈmæn/ (UK).

Words near to a man in the dictionary

  1. to a greater extent
  2. to a hair
  3. to a hammer, everything looks like a nail
  4. to a large extent
  5. to a lesser extent
  6. to a man
  7. to a nicety
  8. to a T
  9. to a tee
  10. to a tick
  11. to a tittle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: to a man (page history and authors); to a 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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