With plural agreement. Important people as a class. Chiefly in mickle and little, little and mickle: persons high and low, everyone without…

The type of person anyone is, or is represented as being; character, status, or bearing. Also occasionally figurative. rare after 17th cent.

figurative and allusively: esp. applied to a seaman, waterman, or person connected in some way with the sea; in quot. 1900 to a large ship. Triton o…

One who resembles or imitates Jove.

Said somewhat contemptuously of a person: A man of many accomplishments; a composite character. Now rare.

(occasionally in singular) men as opposed to women; (now also) those entitled or able to exercise power or control over other people, the natural…

a man looked upon as an instrument of destiny; spec. Napoleon I.

Originally and chiefly humorous. An important person, a leader, a boss.

of the moment: important or fashionable at the time in question. man of the moment n. a man of importance or influence at a particular time; the…

(a) a writer of a history (rare); (b) a person who influences the course of history or does something spectacular or worthy of remembrance.