Masculine

Adjective

 * 1) pertaining to male humans, men:
 * 2) manly; having the qualities associated with men; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; not feminine or effeminate; virile (only in this sense, does the adjective compare)
 * 3) * Henry Hallam — That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
 * 4) * Thomas Fuller — A masculine church.
 * 5) male; having male biology, not female; of the male sex (rare)
 * 6) * Geoffrey Chaucer — Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
 * 7) belonging to men; appropriated to, or used by, men
 * “John”, “Paul”, and “Harry” are masculine names.
 * 1)  in many inflected languages:
 * 2)  being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner
 * The noun Student is masculine in German.
 * 1)  being inflected in agreement with the masculine
 * German uses the masculine of the definite article, der, with Student.

Synonyms

 * manly, virile
 * male

Antonyms

 * emasculated, unmanly, epicene and effeminate
 * female, womanly
 * feminine

Derived terms

 * masculinely
 * masculineness
 * masculinity
 * masculinization
 * demasculinization
 * emasculate

Thesaurus
andric, animate, bull, common gender, feminine, gender, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, he, him, his, hombre, homme, inanimate, male, male being, male person, man, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, neuter, uneffeminate

Etymology
From masculin:, from  masculinus:, diminutive of masculus:, itself a diminutive of mas:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: masculí, viril
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: mehelik, maskuliinne
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, αρσενικός
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 男性的な


 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Marathi: पुरुषी (puruShi)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , , мужественный
 * Simplified Chinese:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: maskulin, manlig
 * West Frisian: manlik


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: masculí
 * Danish: mandlig
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: meessoost
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: पुरुषवाचक (puruShawaachana)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 男の


 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Marathi: पुरुषवाचक (puruShawaachana)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Simplified Chinese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: manlig
 * West Frisian: manlik


 * Armenian: տղամարդու
 * Catalan: masculí
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: mehelik
 * Finnish: miesten (genitive)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: maschile,


 * Japanese: 男性の
 * Korean:
 * Marathi: पुरुषी (puruShi)
 * Persian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Simplified Chinese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: manlig
 * West Frisian: manlik


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (muḏákkar)
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: gourel
 * Catalan: masculí
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 陽性, 阳性 (yángxìng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hankøns-
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: meessugu,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: זכר
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Marathi: पुल्लिंगी (pullingee)
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: पुंलिङ्ग
 * Scottish Gaelic: fireann
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: maskulin
 * Turkish: eril
 * West Frisian: manlik


 * : virseksa
 * : זִכְרִי (zikhrí)
 * : maskula
 * : masculin
 * : मर्दानी (mardānī)


 * : эр (er), эршүүд (eršüüd)
 * : masculino, masculina
 * : fearail, fireannta, fireann
 * : maskulin, maskulint (1,2,4)
 * : మగతనం (magatanaM)
 * : nam tính, tính đàn ông

Anagrams

 * calumnies
 * manicules

Adjective
masculine