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Princeton's WordNet

  1. world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, mannoun

    all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

    "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

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  1. humans

    Humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, are a species of primates categorized under the family Hominidae. Humans are distinguished by their high level of intelligence, complex societal structures, and abilities to create and utilize tools, communicate through a verbal language, and create and engage with symbols, concepts, and abstract thoughts. They are capable of self-awareness, emotion, empathy, and sophisticated problem-solving. Humans are also notable for their bipedal locomotion, and are the only extant species of the genus Homo.

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  1. Humans

    Humains is a French horror film directed from Pierre-Olivier Thévenin and Jacques-Olivier Molon. The film stars Sara Forestier, Dominique Pinon and Philippe Nahon.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Humans

    Members of the species Homo sapiens.

Editors Contribution

  1. humansnoun

    Plural noun of the word human.

    Humans are a diverse race of beings that live on planet Earth at present, perhaps some will move to other planets in the future.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 18, 2016  

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    Rank popularity for the word 'humans' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4345

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of humans in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of humans in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of humans in a Sentence

  1. Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov:

    The space station has been separate from Earth for 20 years, how is it different ? The space station is its own biome with its own resources, with humans coming and going. We want to see what these closed environments do when they've been separate for a long time.

  2. David Asher:

    The most genetically unusual piece of the puzzle and the sequence is a 'furin cleavage site', which allows the virus to spread from bats to humans, and among humans in a highly pathogenic way.

  3. Noam Chomsky:

    Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  4. Jonathan Reiner:

    You can find online a preprint, non-peer-reviewed paper that seems to suggest that in vitro, in other words in test tubes, that there is some antiviral activity for this compound, but I can tell you there are millions of compounds that, when tested in vitro, in a test tube, appear to have some antiviral activity but that are worthless in vivo, in humans.

  5. Thomas Hobbes:

    Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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