mane

[meyn]

noun

1. the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.

2. Informal.,  (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.

mane

/ meɪn /

noun

1. the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse

2. long thick human hair

Other Word Forms

• maneless adjective
• maned adjective
• unmaned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mane¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn

Word History and Origins

Origin of mane¹

Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace

Example Sentences

From Snow White to Belle, for decades Disney princesses could have auburn, blonde or raven manes.

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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?”

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Whenever the Lions break the line, Pollock's blond mane is invariably not far behind.

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Now captain for the first time, one of Itoje's final appointments before departing for Australia is to have his mane trimmed.

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"If we focus on the horse itself, we see that it's the same horse," he says, pointing to its nose piece, mane, ear and tail.

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