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homme

American  
[awm] / ɔm /

noun

French.

plural

hommes
  1. a man.

  2. a human being.


Example Sentences

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Realistically any one of them can be the homme du jour.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2018

Porter le voile ne signifie pas être asservie par un homme.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016

About critics, he declared: “One test of un homme sérieux is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.”

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2015

These I’ve seen translated thus: I come across — pour un homme — as not terribly handsome, But nevertheless – pour un homme — quite seductive.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2013

Il nous fait comm' des petits cal'cons; Un homme, alors, garde moins de mesure, Car �a le monte au ton du sentiment!

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de