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mensch

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/mɛnt͡ʃ/

Definition of mensch

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.
    “[…]Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch[…]”
    “Doctor Dreyfuss [to C. C. Baxter]: Be a mensch!”
    “Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.”
    “Where have all the mensches gone? The character of the administration reflects the character of the man at its head.”
    “Olie Kolzig: Goalie for the Washington Capitals who spent most of 16 seasons between the pipes for the team until being released in 2008. Had the longest career of any Capital. Now plays for Tampa Bay. The ultimate mensch, in my book.”

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Etymology

From 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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