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cyberman

noun

Etymology

Blend of cybernetic + man, analyzable as cyber- + man. Originally a race of extraterrestrial enemies in the long-running British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as cyberman — “cybernetic + man”

Definitions

  1. A human intertwined with electronic components

    A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of cyberman.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA