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masculine

[mas-kyuh-lin]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men.

    masculine attire.

  2. having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength and boldness.

    Synonyms:
  3. 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, ‼Գ.”

  4. (of a woman) mannish.



noun

Grammar.
  1. the masculine gender.

  2. a noun or other element in or marking that gender.

masculine

/ ˈæʊɪ /

adjective

  1. possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man; manly

  2. unwomanly

  3. grammar

    1. denoting a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some male animate referents

    2. ( as noun )

      German ``Weg'' is a masculine

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • masculinely adverb
  • masculinity noun
  • masculineness noun
  • hypermasculine adjective
  • hypermasculinely adverb
  • hypermasculineness noun
  • hypermasculinity noun
  • nonmasculine adjective
  • nonmasculinely adverb
  • nonmasculineness noun
  • nonmasculinity noun
  • pseudomasculine adjective
  • supermasculine adjective
  • supermasculinity noun
  • ultramasculine adjective
  • unmasculine adjective
  • unmasculinely adverb
  • ˈܱԱ adverb
  • ˌˈԾٲ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of masculine1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English masculin, from Latin ܱīԳܲ, equivalent to mascul(us) “male” ( “male” + -culus -cule 1 ) + -īԳܲ -ine 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of masculine1

C14: via French from Latin ܱīԳܲ, from masculus male, from a male
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Synonym Study

See male.
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In this accounting, feminism made women selfish and undesirable, men no longer exhibit sufficient “masculine energy,” and the result is .. wage stagnation?

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I tell her I like the tobacco, masculine energy of Jazz Club.

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Curiously, the style game of Punjabi musicians - from hip-hop, R&B, bhangra pop, fusion, Punjabi rap, reggae or filmy music - has also remained rooted and androgynous, instead of being hyper masculine.

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Father Moses says Orthodoxy is "not masculine, it is just normal", while "in the West everything has become very feminised".

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Presenting masculine symbols while tweaking them or reappropriating them is a potent subversion of the norm.

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