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1. возмужалость, зрелость, зрелый возраст;
2. мужское население;
manhood suffrage — избирательное право для всех взрослых мужчин;
3. мужество.
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сущ.
1) возмужалость, зрелость, зрелый возраст;
2) мужское население;
3) мужество.
Англо-русский словарь по социологии.
2011.
Смотреть что такое «manhood» в других словарях:
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Manhood — Man hood, n. [Man + hood.] 1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. [1913 Webster] 2. Manly quality; virility; courage; bravery; resolution. [1913 Webster] I am ashamed That thou hast power to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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manhood — (n.) early 13c., state of being human, from MAN (Cf. man) (n.) + HOOD (Cf. hood). Meanings state of being an adult male, also manliness, are from late 14c. Similar words in Old English were less explicitly masculine; Cf. manscipe humanity,… … Etymology dictionary
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manhood — index majority (adulthood) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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manhood — / womanhood [n] physical maturity and strength of adult male or female adulthood, coming of age*, fecundity, femininity, fertility, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, potency, virility, womanliness, womanness; concepts 633,715 Ant.… … New thesaurus
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manhood — ► NOUN 1) the state or period of being a man rather than a child. 2) the men of a country or society. 3) the qualities traditionally associated with men, such as strength and sexual potency … English terms dictionary
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manhood — [man′hood΄] n. [ME manhod, manhede: see MAN + HOOD] 1. the state or time of being a man (human being or, esp., adult male human being) 2. manly qualities; manliness 3. men collectively … English World dictionary
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manhood — [[t]mæ̱nhʊd[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Manhood is the state of being a man rather than a boy. They were failing lamentably to help their sons grow from boyhood to manhood. 2) N UNCOUNT Manhood is the period of a man s life during which he is a man rather… … English dictionary
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manhood — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ early, young VERB + MANHOOD ▪ grow to ▪ He grew from adolescence to young manhood. ▪ prove … Collocations dictionary
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manhood — the male genitalia Literally, the state of being an adult male: … tying a handkerchief round the remains of his once proud manhood. (Sharpe, 1979 he had snagged his penis on a rosebush) To eliminate manhood is to castrate: I… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
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manhood — man|hood [ˈmænhud] n 1.) [U] qualities such as strength, courage, and sexual power, that people think a man should have ▪ Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women? 2.) [U] the state of being a man and no longer a boy… … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Manhood — According to the International Genealogical Index, this very interesting surname is recorded as Mainhood, Manhood, Manhoode, Manhud, and Minehead. If so the spellings would suggest that it in spite of its appearance it is English and is not a… … Surnames reference
мужественность, зрелость, возмужалость, зрелый возраст
существительное ↓
- возмужалость, зрелость, зрелый возраст
to reach /to arrive at/ manhood — достичь зрелости /зрелого возраста/ 
- мужское население (страны)
the manhood of England — мужское население Англии
manhood suffrage — избирательное право для всех взрослых мужчин
- мужество, храбрость
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
to grow to / reach manhood — достичь зрелости
to arrive at manhood — достичь зрелого возраста
cut down in the prime of manhood — погубить в расцвете лет
grow into manhood — стать взрослым мужчиной
assert manhood — доказывать свое право называться мужчиной
boy is approaching manhood — мальчик скоро станет взрослым
arrive at manhood — достичь зрелого возраста
reach manhood — мужать
Примеры с переводом
Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women?
Почему ему казалось, что он обязан доказать свою мужественность в компании женщин?
He grew from boyhood to manhood in a small southern town.
Он вырос и возмужал в маленьком южном городке.
He took the comment as a challenge to his manhood.
Он воспринял этот комментарий как сомнение в его мужественности.
America’s manhood
мужественность Америки
He had barely reached manhood when he married.
Он едва достиг зрелости, когда женился.
Примеры, ожидающие перевода
At the age of thirteen the boys in the tribe are initiated into manhood. 
‘Socrates is a man’ predicates manhood of Socrates
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1
: the condition of being a human being
3
: the condition of being an adult male as distinguished from a child or female
Synonyms
Example Sentences
He took the comment as a challenge to his manhood.
He grew from boyhood to manhood in a small southern town.
the manhood of a nation
Recent Examples on the Web
Lucky has several dramatically nuanced, emotionally intense scenes, performed by Catlett with hearty grace and wounded grandeur, centered on the manhood of men who were born stigmatized.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
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—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
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—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022
The movie’s implicit discourse on manhood finds a powerful, yet perhaps ironic, correlate in the contrast between the impressive performances of Jordan and Majors.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
The songs summon the dusty mythology of the American West—supposedly empty expanses, giddy possibilities, manhood tested and proved—while admitting its cost: For the cowboy to have his freedoms, countless others will sacrifice theirs.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
His quietness allows others to project an idealized manhood onto him, which Woolf slowly undermines.
—Micah Mattix, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
For the Maasai tribe in Kenya, killing a lion with a spear was a rite of passage into manhood until the past decade or so.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
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—Time, 11 Nov. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- manhead (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Low German manheit (“manhood”), German Mannheit (“manhood”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈmænhʊd/
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Audio (southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ænhʊd
Noun[edit]
manhood (countable and uncountable, plural manhoods)
- The state or condition of being a human being.
- Synonym: humanity
- He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.
- The state or condition of being a man.
- 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:
- Feel awfully about Scott… It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
- He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.
- 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins:
- All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship’s crew, etc.) regarded collectively.
- Synonym: mankind (exclusively and universally: only synonymous in cases for which women are excluded, and when the meaning of manhood is universal or worldwide)
- Antonyms: womanhood, womankind
- During the Second World War, Russia lost a great percentage of its young manhood, giving rise to a great wave of widowhood in the country.
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1914, D.J. Griffin, Hon. Sec. Castleisland, Kerry, Ireland , Article from the Newspaper «Ireland», Wednesday, November 11, 1914 Title: «Kerry Staunch and True, Great Meeting in Castleisland» :
- But he thanked them all the same for the good example they had shown the county and the country, that in time of trouble, in time of difficulty, and in time of doubt, the manhood of this district and of the surrounding district, and the manhood of Clan Desmond should show their faith in the old grand ideals of a free and united Ireland (cheers).
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1916, Dana Burnet (American Poet) , Excerpt from the poem: «The Gunboat» :
- But nosin’ down the roadway past the bones of other wrecks / Goes the doughty little gunboat with her manhood on her decks!
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1923, Douglas Wood Miller, Practical Exercises in News Writing and Editing, page 112:
- The greatest product of any country is her manhood. What if she can boast of coffers bursting with gold, when she raises men with earthen hearts?
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1932 (October), J.D. Eggleston, The Attitude of Virginia Leaders Toward Slavery and Secession Appearing in: The Virginia Teacher, Volume 13, Issue 7, .pp. 147 — 154:
- Her (the American South’s) soil was drenched with blood; the very flower of her manhood was martyred; her women and children were made to suffer in the extreme; her property was destroyed by forced emancipation, by the devastation of war, […]
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2003, Lenn E. Goodman, Islamic Humanism page 112:
- Long focused on its Soviet adversary, America seemed barely to notice the manhood of Islam. Training, dedication, religious zeal, planning, even where purity might falter, would correct all that. Islam needed young men, skilled, willing to die. The United States would be reduced.
- The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively.
- Synonyms: manfulness, manliness, mannishness
- Antonyms: womanhood, womanishness, womanliness
- My goodness, James certainly is a prime example of manhood, isn’t he?
- Traditionally, men sought to enhance the manhood of their young sons, so that they would become manly men, but in general, men no longer do so.
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1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
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«And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe’rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]»
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- The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man’s sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.
- Antonym: womanhood
- The failure of William’s business seems to have been quite damaging to his manhood.
- I feel that when you boss me around, you insult my manhood.
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1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
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It was a racking experience, and he did not repeat it. The muscular cramps which are characteristic of the complaint were tying the sufferer into knots, and he was biting his lips to shut down the screams which might have relieved his agony at the expense of his manhood.
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- (euphemistic) The male genitalia, especially the penis.
- Hypernym: (slang) junk
- Antonym: womanhood
- She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.
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1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:
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In the course of a journey the Rabbis […] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.
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- 2016, Rory Tingle, «Thai man has a sex ring removed with bolt cutters after it became stuck on his penis», Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers:
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A Thai man was taken to hospital to have a sex toy removed with bolt cutters after it got stuck on his penis. He was using the device at home but was left in agony when he could not detach it from his manhood.
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Coordinate terms[edit]
- womanhood
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- boyhood
- girlhood
- childhood
Translations[edit]
state of being human
- Bulgarian: човечност (bg) f (čovečnost)
- Czech: lidství
- Finnish: ihmisyys (fi)
- French: humanité (fr) f
- Galician: humanidade (gl) f
- Georgian: კაცობა (ḳacoba), ადამიანობა (adamianoba)
- German: Menschentum n, Menschsein (de) n, Menschheit (de) f
- Hebrew: אֱנוֹשׁוּת (he) f (enoshút)
- Russian: челове́чность (ru) f (čelovéčnostʹ)
- Slovak: ľudstvo
- Spanish: humanidad (es) f
- Turkish: insanlık (tr), insaniyet (tr)
- Zulu: ubuntu (zu) class 14
state of being a man
- Bengali: মরদামি (bn) (mordami)
- Bikol Central: pagkalalaki
- Arabic: رُجُولَة f (rujūla), رُجْلَة f (rujla), رُجْلِيَّة f (rujliyya)
- Moroccan Arabic: رجلة f (rujla), رجولة f (rujūla)
- Bulgarian: пълнолетие (bg) n (pǎlnoletie)
- Catalan: masculinitat f, virilitat (ca) f
- Cebuano: pagkalalaki
- Czech: mužství
- Finnish: miehuus (fi)
- French: virilité (fr) f
- Galician: virilidade (gl) f
- Georgian: კაცურობა (ḳacuroba)
- German: Männlichkeit (de) f, Mannsein n
- Greek: ανδρισμός (el) m (andrismós)
- Italian: mascolinità (it) f
- Maori: tānetanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: manndom m
- Nynorsk: manndom m
- Polish: męskość (pl) f
- Portuguese: virilidade
- Russian: му́жественность (ru) f (múžestvennostʹ)
- Slovak: mužskosť
- Spanish: virilidad f, masculinidad (es) f, hombría (es) f
- Tagalog: pagkalalaki
- Tausug: pagkausug
- Turkish: erkeklik (tr)
- Zulu: ubudoda class 14
men as a group
- Bikol Central: kalalakihan
- Finnish: miehet (fi), miesväki
- Georgian: კაცები (ḳacebi), მამრობითი სქესი (mamrobiti skesi), ძლიერი სქესი (ʒlieri skesi)
- Russian: мужско́й пол m (mužskój pol), мужчи́ны (ru) m pl (mužčíny)
- Slovak: muži m pl
- Spanish: masculinidad (es) f
- Tagalog: kalalakihan
- Zulu: amadoda class 6, isilisa class 7
qualities ideally ascribed to manliness
- Bengali: মরদামি (bn) (mordami)
- Bulgarian: мъжественост (bg) (mǎžestvenost)
- Czech: mužnost
- Finnish: miehekkyys (fi)
- French: masculinité (fr) f, virilité (fr) f
- Galician: masculinidade (gl) f
- Georgian: კაცურობა (ḳacuroba), მამაკაცურობა (mamaḳacuroba)
- Greek: ανδρισμός (el) m (andrismós), αρρενωπότητα (el) f (arrenopótita)
- Hebrew: גַּבְרִיּוּת (he) f (gavriyút)
- Russian: му́жественность (ru) f (múžestvennostʹ), му́жество (ru) n (múžestvo)
- Slovak: mužnosť
- Spanish: virilidad f, masculinidad (es) f
- Turkish: erkeklik (tr)
- Zulu: ubudoda class 14
euphemism of male genitalia
- Bikol Central: pagkalalaki
- Bulgarian: пакет (bg) m (paket)
- Cebuano: pagkalalaki
- Chinese:
- Min Nan: lān-tsiàu
- Czech: mužství
- Finnish: miehuus (fi)
- German: Männlichkeit (de) f, Gemächte (de) n
- Greek: ανδρισμός (el) m (andrismós)
- Hebrew: זַכְרוּת (he) f (zachrút)
- Hungarian: férfiasság (hu)
- Irish: ball fearga m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: manndom m
- Nynorsk: manndom m
- Polish: męskość (pl) f
- Russian: мужски́е половы́е о́рганы m pl (mužskíje polovýje órgany), мужски́е генита́лии f pl (mužskíje genitálii)
- Slovak: mužnosť
- Spanish: virilidad f, masculinidad (es) f
- Tagalog: pagkalalaki (euphemistic)
- Turkish: erkeklik (tr), erkeklik organı (tr)
- Zulu: umthondo class 3/4
Translations to be checked
See also[edit]
manhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
- hoodman
manhood — перевод на русский
/ˈmænhʊd/
We are the Reich’s young manhood. !
Мы мужественность молодого Рейха!
— Well, this is not a slur on your manhood.
— Это нисколько не принижает вашу мужественность.
Cut out this cuckold’s manhood.
Отрежь мужественность этого рогоносца!
And after the year I’ve been through, I needed something to restore my pride, my dignity, my manhood.
После такого трудного года мне нужно было что-то, чтобы возродить мою гордость чувство собственного достоинства, мужественность.
Usually spend a lot of time in basements… paddling one another’s bums to prove their manhood.
Обычно проводят кучу времени в подвалах, Надирая друг другу задницы, чтобы доказать свою мужественность.
Показать ещё примеры для «мужественность»…
Yes: sell your manhood for thirty levas, and buy me for ten!
Да… Продаешь свое мужское достоинство за 30 левов и покупаешь меня за 10.
Not my manhood, please!
Что угодно, только не мое мужское достоинство.
The myth has it that she’s the most beautiful of all the goddesses… and any mortal man who would try to court her… she would slice his manhood off.
миф говорит, что она является самой красивой из всех богинь… и любому смертному кто пробовал бы ухаживать за нею… она отрезала бы его мужское достоинство.
— For example if I promised a woman’s father I would not see her I would simply shut my eyes while she serviced my manhood.
-Скажем если б я пообещал её отцу, что я её больше не увижу то я просто закрывал бы глаза, пока она обхаживает моё мужское достоинство.
That miserable little worm insulted my manhood.
Этот жалкий червь покусился на моё мужское достоинство.
Показать ещё примеры для «мужское достоинство»…
For ’tis there that we wasted our manhood.
Здесь за зря растрачивалось мужество.
Okay, test of manhood. Here we go.
Прямо тест на мужество.
It represents aggression and manhood.
Подчеркивает агрессию и мужество.
Pack your manhood on ice.
Обложи своё мужество льдом.
— Has that Legate… stolen your manhood, Dolan?
Этот посланец забрал у тебя все мужество, Долан?
Показать ещё примеры для «мужество»…
I should think there’s more to manhood than swordplay.
Мужчина — это не только умение обращаться с мечом.
Prove your manhood and I’ll leave you be.
Докажи, что ты мужчина, и я оставлю тебя в покое.
Let him fight me! Let him reclaim his manhood!
Доказать, что он мужчина!
Don’t need that to prove my manhood.
Я и без них могу доказать, что я мужчина.
To be given an ounce of the respect you receive instantly by virtue of your manhood!
Чтобы получить хоть каплю уважения, которое ты получаешь постоянно в виду того, что ты мужчина!
Показать ещё примеры для «мужчина»…
You can run east and have your manhood sliced off by the Frogs.
Можешь бежать на восток, и французы отрежут тебе достоинство.
Shrivelled manhood?
— Усохшее достоинство? — Усохшее достоинство.
If you so much as move to touch me, I will sever your manhood. You understand?
И если Вы попытаетесь дотронуться до меня я отсеку Вам Ваше достоинство.
Cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats.
Отрежьте его достоинство и скормите его козлам.
Like my manhood, it has far greater value to me than to you.
Как и моё достоинство, эта вещь мне нужнее, чем вам.
Показать ещё примеры для «достоинство»…
You don’t have the symbol of manhood?
У тебя нет символа мужской силы?
Imagine, this is gonna be his first memory of his parents just standing there while some stranger cuts off a piece of his manhood and then serves a catered lunch.
Представьте, это будет его первым воспоминанием стоящие рядом родители, пока какой-то незнакомец отрезает кусок его мужской сути а потом устраивает обед.
We were having a discussion about the future of our community, and you attacked me and turned it into a referendum about your manhood.
Мы обсуждали наше будущее на этой улице, а ты набросился на меня и превратил всё в референдум о твоей мужской силе.
He says the symbol of manhood shouldn’t be a vegetarian.
Он говорит, что символу мужского начала негоже быть вегетарианцем.
I’m talking mouth-watering, tasty morsels of manhood -— which, by the way, was the original name of the business, but it was already taken by a firm in Woodbridge.
Я имею ввиду, чтоб слюнки текли, «клубничка» от мужского населения — так, кстати, я назвал этот бизнес первоначально, но название уже занято фирмой в Вудбридже.
Показать ещё примеры для «мужской»…
I had a nocturnal emission and went to the bathroom to wash, the sheet was a little, sticky, and when I got back, my mum had hung the sheet up in the backyard — — and gathered a bunch of neighbours, to celebrate the arrival of my manhood and they kept singing…
У меня была ночная поллюция, и я пошёл в ванную помыться, а простынь была немного липкой, и к тому времени, как я вернулся, моя мать повесила эту простынь во дворе и созвала всех соседей, чтобы отпраздновать наступление моей зрелости, и они все пели…
A young boy on the cusp of manhood.
Молодой паренёк на пике зрелости.
Dream of your manhood Pray I’m there to guide you
Мечтай о своей зрелости, я провожу тебя по ней.
I know not to embarrass my son as he stands on the threshold of manhood.
Я знаю, что нельзя позорить сына, когда он стоит на пути к зрелости.
It was my job to steer my boys to manhood.
Главной моей задачей было довести сыновей до зрелости.
Показать ещё примеры для «зрелости»…
I’d have this gazebo torn down and built into a coffin… for your manhood.
Я бы разрушил эту беседку, а обломками растопил бы печь… чтоб впредь ты был настоящим мужиком.
— Who wants to regain their manhood?
Кто хочет стать мужиком?
You have the experience of manhood.
Ты знаешь, как быть мужиком.
Macho means manhood.
Мачо это крутой мужик.
Welcome to your manhood, Tom.
Вот теперь ты мужик.
Показать ещё примеры для «мужиком»…
This is van Hoytl’s exquisite portrayal of a beautiful boy on the cusp of manhood.
Это изысканное творение ван Хойтла изображает красивого мальчика на пороге возмужания.
‘Cause I got manhood issues.
Из-за проблем возмужания.
Well, the first rule of manhood is to provide for your family, and believe me, my family’s well provided for.
Ну, первое правило возмужания — обеспечить свою семью, и поверь мне, моя семья хорошо обеспечена.
Welcome to manhood.
Здравствуй, возмужание.
As it appears for the lieutenant, this boy had manhood issues.
Как кажется лейтенанту, это проблемы с возмужанием.