mane

B2 Topic:Animals

US /meɪn/ See IPA manual

Homophones

main /ˈmeɪn/

Minimal pairs

Sounds like men /ɛ/ vs /eɪ/

Freq #20072

Meanings

1

noun
Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.

Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
2

noun
long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
3

noun
growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
4

noun
Long or thick hair of a person's head.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

3 noun · growth of hair covering the... head of hair

Word family

Derived forms hogmanemane-combmanedmanelessmanelikeunmaned

Etymology

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

Topics

Animals

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# mane

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /meɪn/
**Frequency rank:** 20072

## Meanings
1. Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
2. long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
3. growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
4. Long or thick hair of a person's head.

## Examples
- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.

## Derived Forms
- hogmane
- mane-comb
- maned
- maneless
- manelike
- unmaned

## Etymology
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

## Topics
- Animals

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