mane
Americannoun
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the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
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Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.
noun
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the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
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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
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Jolyon is played by a male model whose lustrous mane gets more of a workout than his emotional range.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Sitting cross-legged on a red carpet, artist Mohammad Younes Qane uses an ultra-fine paintbrush to trace details such as a horse's mane or the beads of a necklace.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
She once had such a lush mane that her hairdressers complained about it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
But the 29-year-old, who ordered lion's mane online to add to coffees at home, found it expensive and switched to drinking lion's mane tincture mixed into water instead.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale’s fur and its mane was long and tangled.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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