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Mensch   /mɛnʃ/   Listen
Mensch

noun
1.
A decent responsible person with admirable characteristics.  Synonym: mensh.






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"Mensch" Quotes from Famous Books



... which the left vertebral artery arose from the aorta. Of other varieties described by authors, he observes—"Rara vero haec omnia esse si dixero cum quadringenta nunc cadavera humana dissecuerim, fidem forte inveniam." (Iconum Anatom.) This variety is also stated by J. F. Meckel (Handbuch der Mensch Anat.), Soemmerring (De Corp. Hum Fabrica), Boyer (Tr. d'Anat.), and Mr. Harrison (Surg. Anal. of Art.), to be the most frequent. Tiedemann figures this variety amongst others (Tabulae Arteriarum). Mr. Quain regards as the most frequent ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... nicht messen Irgend ein Mensch. Hebt er sich aufwrts Und berhrt 15 Mit dem Scheitel die Sterne, Nirgends haften dann Die unsichern Sohlen, Und mit ihm spielen Wolken ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various



Words linked to "Mensch" :   mensh, Yiddish, good person



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