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单词 men
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Menn.

Brit. /mɛn/, U.S. /mɛn/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: mensa n.
Etymology: Shortened < mensa n. (compare mensa n. 2), originally as a graphic abbreviation.
Astronomy.
The constellation Mensa. Chiefly as postmodifier, designating a star of this constellation.
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Men1922
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1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Men Mensa... Mic Microscopium... Mon Monoceros... Mus Musca.
1995 Astron. & Astrophysics Suppl. 114 578/2 We are..inclined to think that AD Men is indeed a CV [= cataclysmic variable].
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

menpron.

Forms: early Middle English mæn, Middle English men.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: man pron.
Etymology: Variant of man pron. with change of vowel due to low stress; compare Middle Dutch men (Dutch men ), Middle Low German men , Middle High German men . See also me pron.2
Obsolete.
(With singular agreement.) = one pron. 17a.In quot. a1225 the verb may be singular or plural; in the latter case, men would be an example of the generalized use of the plural of man n.1 1b.
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?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) xcviii. 62 Þeos wyrt þat men gladiolum..nemneð [OE Vitell. man gladiolum..nemneþ].
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 33 (MED) Þis beot þa twa sunne þe men fulieð alra swiðest.
a1250 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Titus) (1981) 1363 As men [v.r. me] droh ham to hare deað.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1293 And morie, men seið, was ðat hil.
c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 205 I bad men sholde me my couche make.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxv. 96 Men ought not to susteyne his lord in his Wrathe and yre.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. vii Men muste putte hym self at the vpper syde of hym.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) ii. vii. 33 Of the other two Ierarchyes men [a1398 BL Add. me] shall speke innermore in theyr owne place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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