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ALL meanings of masculine

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  • adjective masculine relating to men 1
  • adjective masculine quality: manly 1
  • adjective masculine grammar: of masculine gender 1
  • noun masculine related to men 1
  • adjective masculine pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire. 1
  • adjective masculine having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength and boldness. 1
  • adjective masculine Grammar. noting or pertaining to the gender of Latin, Greek, German, French, Spanish, Hebrew, etc., which has among its members most nouns referring to males, as well as other nouns, as Spanish dedo, “finger,” German Bleistift, “pencil.”. 1
  • adjective masculine (of a woman) mannish. 1
  • noun masculine the masculine gender. 1
  • noun masculine a noun or other element in or marking that gender. 1
  • noun masculine The male sex or gender. 1
  • adjective masculine Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly. 0
  • adjective masculine Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female. 0
  • adjective masculine Belonging to males; typically used by males. 0
  • adjective masculine Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate. 0
  • adjective masculine (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. 0
  • adjective masculine Masculine qualities and things relate to or are considered typical of men, in contrast to women. 0
  • adjective masculine If you say that someone or something is masculine, you mean that they have qualities such as strength or confidence which are considered typical of men. 0
  • adjective masculine In some languages, a masculine noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a feminine or neuter one, or behaves in a different way. 0
  • adjective masculine possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man; manly 0
  • adjective masculine unwomanly 0
  • adjective masculine denoting a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some male animate referents 0
  • adjective masculine (as noun) 0
  • adjective masculine male; of men or boys 0
  • adjective masculine having qualities regarded as characteristic of men and boys, as strength, vigor, boldness, etc.; manly; virile 0
  • adjective masculine suitable to or characteristic of a man 0
  • abbreviation MASCULINE mannish 0
  • adjective masculine designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting or referring to males, as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed 0
  • adjective masculine designating or of a cadence ending on an accented note or chord 0
  • adjective masculine ending with a stressed syllable, as a line of verse 0
  • adjective masculine designating or of rhyme in which the rhyming elements are stressed final syllables (Ex.: hill, fill, enjoy, destroy) 0
  • noun masculine the masculine gender 0
  • noun masculine a word or form in this gender 0
  • noun masculine (grammar) The masculine gender. 0
  • noun masculine (grammar) A word of the masculine gender. 0
  • noun masculine That which is masculine. 0
  • noun masculine (rare, possibly obsolete) A man. 0
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