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Mensch

//mɛnt͡ʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.

    "[…]Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch[…]"

  2. 2
    a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics wordnet

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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