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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. Jerry Guilbert:

    Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

  2. Sherry Lin:

    It's one of those things where it's so easy for humans to do and so hard for a computer system to tell.

  3. Misty Buswell:

    Families (Save the Children interviewed) spoke of sick babies dying at checkpoints, vets (veterinary surgeons) treating humans, and children forced to eat animal feed as they cower in basements from airstrikes.

  4. Patrick Roberts:

    [ Forests ] have been managed by humans in many places for millennia, and so what do you return it to ?

  5. Clint Penick:

    Humans bring a ton of general resources, the species that can take advantage of these resources the best, sort of wins.

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