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mann

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • rhymes with -æn
  • CMU ARPABET: M AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from German.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

name

Meaning 2

A surname from Punjabi.

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name

Meaning 3

Isle of Man

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4

name

Meaning 4

A river in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia, which joins the Clarence River.

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noun

Meaning 5

A fairy chess piece that can move to any adjacent square. It moves like a king but is not a royal piece.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: board-games, chess, games

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noun

Meaning 6

Descendants of Burmese people who settled in Northeast India.

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noun

Meaning 7

German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: Thomas Mann

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Broader terms: writer, author

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noun

Meaning 8

United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: Horace Mann

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Broader terms: educator, pedagogue, pedagog

History

Etymology

As a German surname, from the root of man.

Borrowed from German Mann (“man”). Doublet of man and Manu.

Borrowed from Assamese মান (man, “Burmese”).