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1. (adj.) masculine
pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men.
2. masculine
having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength and boldness.
3. masculine
of, pertaining to, or being the grammatical gender that has among its members most nouns referring to males, as well as other nouns, as Spanish dedo“finger” or German Bleistift“pencil.”
4. masculine
(of a woman) mannish.
5. (n.) masculine
the masculine gender.
6. masculine
a word or other form in or marking the masculine gender.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME masculin < L masculīnus=mascul(us) male (mās male +-culus -cule1) +-īnus
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) masculine
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
2. (adj) masculine
of grammatical gender
3. (adj) masculine
associated with men and not with women
4. (adj) masculine
(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
"a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'"
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1. (adjective) masculine
typical of a male
masculine features
2. masculine
(of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, etc.) having a particular form that is not feminine or neuter
Is it a masculine or feminine noun?
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) masculine
of the male sex; not female
2. (adj) masculine
having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust
3. (adj) masculine
belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males
4. (adj) masculine
having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender
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Sense: of the male sex
masculine qualities.
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 Afrikaans: manlik |
 Arabic: ذُكوري |
 Bulgarian: мъжествен |
 Brazilian: masculino |
 Czech: mužský; mužný |
 German: männlich |
 Danish: maskulin; mandig |
 Greek: αρσενικός, ανδρικός, αρρε |
 Spanish: masculino |
 Estonian: mehelik |
 Farsi: مذکر |
 Finnish: maskuliininen |
 French: masculin |
 Hebrew: גַברִי |
 Hindi: पुरुषवत् |
 Croatian: muški, muževan |
 Hungarian: férfias |
 Indonesian: laki-laki |
 Icelandic: karlkyns |
 Italian: mascolino, maschile |
 Japanese: 男性の |
 Korean: 남자에 어울리는 |
 Lithuanian: vyriškas, vyrų |
 Latvian: vīrieša-; vīrišķīgs |
 Malay: kelakian |
 Dutch: mannelijk |
 Norwegian: mannlig, maskulin, mandig |
 Polish: męski |
 Persian: مذکر |
 Pashto: نارينه |
 Portuguese: masculino |
 Romanian: masculin |
 Russian: мужской |
 Slovak: mužský |
 Slovenian: moški |
 Serbian: muški |
 Swedish: manlig, maskulin |
 Thai: เกี่ยวกับเพศชาย |
 Turkish: erkeğe ait, erkeksi |
 Taiwanese: 男性的，男子氣概的 |
 Ukrainian: чоловічий |
 Urdu: مردانہ |
 Vietnamese: thuộc giống đực |
 Chinese: 男性的，男性气概的 |
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