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Admirable person
Answer for the clue "Admirable person ", 6 letters:
mensch
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Word definitions for mensch in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person of strength and honor," 1907, from Yiddish, from German Mensch , literally "man, person," from Old High German mennisco "human," from Proto-Germanic adjective *manniska- "human" (see mannish ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ You've been a real mensch .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
( mentsh , cognate with the German word Mensch meaning a "human being") means "a person of integrity and honor". The opposite of a "" is an "", meaning an utterly unlikeable or unfriendly person. According to Leo Rosten , the Yiddish maven and author of ...
Usage examples of mensch.
Bij de keuze van een verblijfplaats op het land gaan zij met groote omzichtigheid te werk, misschien hebben zij deze gewoonte eerst aangenomen, nadat de ervaring hun geleerd had, dat het noodig is, zich zooveel mogelijk in acht te nemen, voor hun gevaarlijksten vijand, den mensch.
Alfred had seen already, a man in early midlife, and it was easy to see, from his appearance, how the mensch had once mistaken the Sartan for gods.
Die Freiheit hat nur Werth, ja sie ist erst dann vorhanden, wenn auch der Mensch zu leben hat, und diesen Lebensunterhalt garantirt die Zivilisation nicht.
Felsen von Harlech einander zu entfremden, hatte kein Mensch sein Gesicht gesehen.
Ein junger Mensch mit einem Aspekt von Schlechtbezahltheit und Pflanzenkost bediente ihn, indem er neue Mappen zur Ansicht herbeischleppte.
From Pergina I went to Trent and from there to Bolzan, where, needing money for my dress, linen, and the continuation of my journey, I introduced myself to an old banker named Mensch, who gave me a man to send to Venice with a letter to M.
Soon he sat down to a new-rinsed dish of yesterday's stew reheated (chuck steak, onions, carrots, spuds, well-spiced with Lea and Perrin's and a generous drop or so of chili sauce) while there sang on the stove in deep though tepid fat a whole bag of ready-cut crinkled potato pieces and, in another pan, slices of spongy canned meat called Mensch or Munch or something.