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Mensch   /mɛnʃ/   Listen
Mensch

noun
1.
A decent responsible person with admirable characteristics.  Synonym: mensh.






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"Mensch" Quotes from Famous Books



... grimacing, without noise—very touching, very quiet, with something more of pity than of pain in her face, as one weeps in compassion rather than in grief—and Hermann, before her, declaimed. I caught several times the word "Mensch," man; and also "Fressen," which last I looked up afterwards in my dictionary. It means "Devour." Hermann seemed to be requesting an answer of some sort from her; his whole body swayed. She remained mute and perfectly ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Mensch" :   mensh, Yiddish, good person



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