Definitions for Masculine

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Masculine mas·cu·line

Spelling: [mas-kyuh-lin]

IPA: /ˈmæs kyə lɪn/

Masculine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 738 anagrams from letters in Masculine (aceilmnsu).

Definitions for Masculine

noun

1. the masculine gender.
2. a noun or other element in or marking that gender.

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men:
2. having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength and boldness.
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, “pencil.”.
4. (of a woman) mannish.

Origin of Masculine

1300-50; Middle English masculin Latin masculīnus, equivalent to mascul(us) male (mās male + -culus -cule¹) + -īnus -ine¹

Examples for Masculine

But, at that moment, to Dr. Eben it looked large and masculine.

And his small-scale sculpture Avarice and Lust (1887) embodies the two sins via a masculine form entangled with a female one.

Then it says masculine and feminine roles are distinct in the Bible.

But since then it has had time and opportunity to become strong, bold, masculine, potential.

It arose, I imagine, from an excess of the masculine element in his nature.

The boy gave her the superior smile of the masculine creature.

I told him that most of masculine Denboro fished or farmed or kept store.

Every person is made up of a mix of masculine and feminine features.

But to be clear, masculine aggression has always typified and justified Republican foreign policy.

As a grad student, I believed that ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ were tools of patriarchal oppression.