mensch
A person of strength, integrity, and honor or compassionA person of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.
» Being a mensch means being responsible.
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1 sensesA person of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.
Ehrenmann
- a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
Examples
3 sentencesBeing a mensch means being responsible.
Tom was a mensch.
ruТом был хорошим человеком. — marafon
deTom war ein guter Mensch. — kutschektar
He's a mensch if I've ever seen one.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Yiddish מענטש (mentsh, “an honorable person”), from Middle High German mensch, menschFrom Yiddish מענטש (mentsh, “an honorable person”), from Middle High German mensch, mensche, mennische, from Old High German mennisko (“man, human being”), from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). The spelling mensch was influenced by German Mensch; compare the alternative spellings. Doublet of mennish; compare also mense. For the semantics, compare Latin humanē (“kindly, courteously”), English humane.
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Forms
plural: mensches / menschenSynonyms
1 synonyms- a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics:mensh
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.