mane
Americannoun
-
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
-
Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.
noun
-
the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
-
long thick human hair
Other Word Forms
- maned adjective
- maneless adjective
- unmaned adjective
Etymology
Origin of mane
before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Prices vary by location but at Black Sheep Coffee in Birmingham, adding a shot of lion's mane to your coffee costs 99p, and a shot of collagen costs £1.09.
From BBC
When she does return to the screen, Rogers will still be sporting her famous ginger mane, as she didn’t lose her hair during chemo.
From Los Angeles Times
“I started the show with brown hair,” he says with a chuckle, his now stark white mane peering through a black baseball cap.
From Los Angeles Times
From Snow White to Belle, for decades Disney princesses could have auburn, blonde or raven manes.
From Salon
I go onto social media and people are asking one another, almost every day: “How does he maintain such a full mane and youthful glow?”
From Los Angeles Times
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
