Thesaurus:human

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human

English

Noun

Sense: member of homo sapiens, including embryos and fetuses

Synonyms

• featherless biped (chiefly humorous)
• human
• naked ape (chiefly humorous)

Various

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• hominid    [⇒ thesaurus]
• primate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mammal    [⇒ thesaurus]

Notes

• There is a subtle difference between human and a person, apparent in abortion debates. A person is something located in a human and arguably is not there at the moment of conception at which there is only a single cell. A distinction is maintained by WordNet and Wikidata.

Further reading

• "human" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• Wikidata:human
• human on Wikipedia.Wikipedia