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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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  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. Mickey Mehta:

    Humans worldwide speak different languages and animals speak the same. Animals remain anonymous and humans after self branding still ask what's in a name. If only we could become more carefree about our identities ensconced in our egos, we would be relaxed and be more dis-ease free. Be carefree and immunize, breathe in liberty & MickeyMize.

  2. Angie Johnston:

    The thing that's especially interesting is that lines up with previous research with humans, showing that humans are also more likely to help if they're not as stressed out by the situation, so it seems like in this way, dogs may be similar to humans.

  3. Maxime Aubert:

    It is from this area that Stone Age humans departed by boat to cross Island South Asia to reach the mainland of Papua and Australia( the first successful major maritime voyage), stone Age humans were Stone Age humans, and now we know( Stone Age humans) had advanced medical knowledge.

  4. John Thorn:

    There's plenty of cheating and skullduggery and trying to take advantage of a situation, baseball is played by humans. And run by humans. And managed by humans.

  5. Tamas Horvath:

    I think this behavior is so simple, so primitive that I think the machinery that drives the mice will be very similar to the machinery that drives humans as well, but, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there.

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