Inflected forms: pl. mensch·es or mensch·en ( mnshn) Informal A person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose: “He radiates the kind of fundamental decency that has a name in Yiddish; he's a mensch” (James Atlas).
ETYMOLOGY:
Yiddish, human being, mensch, from Middle High German, human being, from Old High German mennisco. See man-1 in Appendix I.
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