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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
Ludwig Quidde

Meaning of "man in the street" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAN IN THE STREET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAN IN THE STREET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Man in the street is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAN IN THE STREET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of man in the street in the English dictionary

The definition of man in the street in the dictionary is the typical or ordinary person, esp as a hypothetical unit in statistics.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAN IN THE STREET

man
man about town
man and boy
man boobs
Man Booker Prize
Man fern
man flu
man Friday
man in the moon
man jack
man lock
man management
man manager
man o´ war
man of God
man of straw
man of the world
man orchid
man up
man-at-arms

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAN IN THE STREET

back street
backstreet
Bay Street
Bradstreet
cross street
Downing Street
Easy Street
Fleet Street
greet
High Street
high-street
Main Street
off-street
side street
street
the Arab street
the High Street
Threadneedle Street
through street
to be a one-way street
Wall Street

Synonyms and antonyms of man in the street in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «man in the street» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAN IN THE STREET

Find out the translation of man in the street to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of man in the street from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «man in the street» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男子在街头
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hombre de la calle
570 millions of speakers

English

man in the street
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गली में आदमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رجل في الشارع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обыватель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homem da rua
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাস্তায় মানুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homme de la rue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki di jalanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mann auf der Straße
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一般人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거리에서 사람
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong ing dalan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đàn ông trên đường phố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெருவில் மனிதன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रस्त्यावरील माणूस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sokakta adam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uomo della strada
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Mężczyzna na ulicy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обиватель
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omul de pe stradă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ο άνθρωπος στο δρόμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

man in die straat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mannen på gatan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mannen i gata
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of man in the street

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAN IN THE STREET»

The term «man in the street» is very widely used and occupies the 4.838 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAN IN THE STREET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about man in the street

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4 QUOTES WITH «MAN IN THE STREET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word man in the street.
1
Alvar Aalto
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
2
Roland Joffe
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
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Pope John Paul II
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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Ludwig Quidde
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAN IN THE STREET»

Discover the use of man in the street in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to man in the street and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952
The second volume of Eimar O'Duffy's Cuanduine trilogy, The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street, inverts the perspective of King Goshawk and the Birds. While Cuchulain is in temporary possession of the grocer's clerk O' Kennedy 's ...
José Lanters, 2000
2
Jaina Epistemology in Historical and Comparative ...
because he is mortal, like a man in the street.' [This example is fallacious] because the quality of being dispassionate is doubtful in [the case of] a man in the street, inasmuch as there is no ascertainment of that [quality of being dispassionate] ...
Piotr Balcerowicz, 2001
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A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia
... the narrator sees a poor man in the street, amidst the ending activities of a cold day, donkeys coming back from the market, carrying peasants sitting on the pack- saddles. He brings the old man in out of the cold, but he is not identified by ...
John Andrew Frey, 1999
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Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents
It is a common observation nowadays that the man in the street accepts the " miracles " of science in a matter of fact way. Every day of his life the common man makes use of what men in other ages would have deemed miraculous means.
Henry Miller, 1969
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Effigy: Images of Capital Defendants
knowledge must seek to understand the processes by which this is done in such a way that a taken-for-granted “reality” congeals for the man in the street.8 Applied to capital juries, this approach suggests that jurors are perceivers of whatever ...
Allison M. Cotton, 1955
6
Phineas Redux
When he swore before the magistrate that he thought he could identify my client with the man in the street, he really meant that he thought that there must be iden — tity, because he believed from other reasons that Mr Finn was the man in the ...
Anthony Trollope, John Bowen, 2011
7
True Stories of Old Houston and Houstonians
The little man in the street was one of the leading businessmen of Houston, while the man upstairs with the cane was a fashionable physician. There had been serious trouble between the two which had resulted in the merchant ordering the  ...
Samuel Oliver Young, 2010
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Myths We Live by
Be that as it may, in this perhaps more traditional view of philosophy, sociology falls between the naive immediacy of the "man in the street" and the reflective ambitions of the philosopher. It looks at different approaches to life in terms of the  ...
Colin Grant, 1998
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Epicurus in Lycia: The Second-century World of Diogenes of ...
... and of death, and it was the man in the street who needed — and accepted — their reassurance," and that Lucretius belonged to the gentlemen's world and the propagandists' tCinna ihe Poet and Othe r Roman Essays tLeicester, 1974]. 27.
Pamela Gordon, 1996
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Pragmatics, Truth, and Language
Hintikka's defense of such admission is by appeal to that ghost from nowhere, the man in the street.14 He contends that the man in the street "relies" on such entities, "considers" alternatives, "implicitly classifies" them, and has "no qualms ...
R.M. Martin, 1979

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAN IN THE STREET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term man in the street is used in the context of the following news items.
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The pros and cons of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact | Asia | DW …
That's not what the "man in the street" thinks, but that's what economists think. So, relative to their economic size, Vietnam and Japan will benefit ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
2
UPDATE 2-Singapore c.bank says headline CPI likely to stay …
"So the man in the street... is not experiencing deflation or negative inflation. It is a concentrated price decline in a few items that's dragging ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
3
Pedestrian hit, killed by car near SW 128th & Ambaum Saturday night
The driver of the vehicle said he did not see the man in the street until it was too late. He tried to stop but hit him, causing him to strike the hood ... «The B-Town Blog, Jul 15»
4
What is best for Malta: fracking or conventional drilling? - The Malta …
The man in the street has by now got so fed up reading about failed attempts that hope of a successful discovery has faded completely and ... «Malta Independent Online, Jul 15»
5
Blame it on Game of Thrones - MaltaToday.com.mt
Syriza is not responsible for the crisis; and, more importantly, neither is the ordinary Greek man in the street who will be bearing the brunt of the ... «MaltaToday, Jul 15»
6
MPD investigates officer-involved shooting
Police said officers were responding to a call on Fisher Street last night, then spotted a man in the street shooting at someone else. «WSFA, Jul 15»
7
Better than Tinder? Watch hilarious reactions of women asked on …
... Samuel Abrahams, is a social experiment, showing the varying reactions of women when they're approached by a man in the street. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
Officer involved shooting after police car rammed on I-5
A Seattle police officer shot and killed a knife-wielding man in the street shortly after he rammed a patrol car on I-5 Friday morning. «MyNorthwest.com, Jul 15»
9
Man shot to death on Simcoe Street Friday morning
Officers found a deceased black man in the street when they arrived. Lafayette Police identified the victim as Amon Bob, 30, who lived in the ... «The Daily Advertiser, Jul 15»
10
Congress: Hike in VAT on diesel exposes double-standards of BJP
This is the price the man in the street has to pay for the inefficiency and mismanagement of resources by the Khattar Government which is ... «India.com, Jul 15»

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