Thesaurus:human
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: member of homo sapiens, including embryos and fetuses
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- featherless biped (chiefly humorous)
- human
- naked ape (chiefly humorous)
Various
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Notes
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "human" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
- Wikidata:human
- human on Wikipedia.Wikipedia