WordNet
n. subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races [syn: Homo sapiens sapiens]
Wikipedia
Modern Man (subtitled "The Adult Picture Magazine") is a now defunct monthly men's magazine founded in 1951 and run until 1967. Predating Playboy, Modern Man focused on items of interest to adult men, with an emphasis on soft-core pornography, sex, humor, automobiles and popular culture. It featured photographs of many well-known models and actresses, including Marilyn Monroe, Pat Sheehan, Bambi Hamilton, June Blair, Tara Thomas, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van Doren, as well as questionable look-alikes.
Modern man may refer to:
- Modernity, recent history and society, especially:
:* The modern individual or everyman.
:* The contemporary human condition.
- Anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens of the last 200,000 years
Modern Man is a 2006 experimental drama about one man’s isolation and search for meaning. The film was directed, edited and photographed by Justin Swibel.
Modern Man is the fifth album by jazz fusion bassist Stanley Clarke. "Dayride" from the Return to Forever album No Mystery (1975) was re-recorded for this album. Also included was "More Hot Fun", a sequel to "Hot Fun" from the previous album School Days.
Modern Man is the third studio album of British indie band Dissident Prophet, under the name Maccabees. All tracks produced by Andy Jennings and Aleem Hossain. Engineered by Tom Livemore. It was independently released in the UK, on their own TAX Records label, on 20 November 2005.
Usage examples of "modern man".
A stupid, irrational thought for a modern man, a space-traveller come to that, but in my circumstances it got a toe-hold in my mind.
At any rate, Hue has inadvertently left the robust Homo erectus behind, and is about to join the gracile Homo sapiens sapiens -- or fully modern man, physically.
The one human Protector we know of, Brennan, was a Sol Belter, an evolved, modern man, the product of many generations of civilization and science and imbued with the values of benevolence and cooperation that are part of all the great human religious and ethical systems.
UN public affairs bureaus, had tinkered with this facet of modern man's complex character: his ability to enjoy the suffering of someone else whom he did not even know.
Even in their ruins there is a grandeur and magnificence that still has power to awe a modern man.
And, modern man that he ultimately was, Ainsley thoroughly approved of the world-wide ban on capital punishment.