adman | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: advertiser, advertizer |
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aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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artilleryman | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner |
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assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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boatman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, waterman |
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bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
(noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
(noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
boogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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caiman | (noun) a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | Synonyms: cayman |
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cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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(noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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(noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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cayman | (noun) a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly | Synonyms: caiman |
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ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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(noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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chapman | (noun) archaic term for an itinerant peddler | - |
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chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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chessman | (noun) any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | Synonyms: chess piece |
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churchman | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: cleric, divine, ecclesiastic |
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clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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clergyman | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: man of the cloth, reverend |
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coachman | (noun) a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
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coalman | (noun) someone who delivers coal | - |
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coastguardsman | (noun) a member of a coastguard | - |
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committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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counterwoman | (noun) a female who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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countryman | (noun) a man from your own country | - |
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(noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: ruralist |
countrywoman | (noun) a woman from your own country | - |
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(noun) a woman who lives in the country and has country ways | - |
cowman | (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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(noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
(noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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crewman | (noun) a member of a work crew | - |
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(noun) a member of a flight crew | Synonyms: crew member |
(noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: sailor |
dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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(noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
dalesman | (noun) a person who lives in the dales of northern England | - |
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deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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deskman | (noun) the police sergeant on duty in a police station | Synonyms: desk sergeant, station keeper |
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dolman | (noun) a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves | - |
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(noun) a hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders | Synonyms: dolman jacket |
doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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draftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsperson, draughtsman |
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(noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: drawer |
dragoman | (noun) an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
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draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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dustman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector |
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earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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fireman | (noun) play in which children pretend to put out a fire | - |
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(noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter |
(noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: stoker |
(noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever |
fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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foeman | (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, opposition |
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footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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(noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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(noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
freedman | (noun) a male person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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