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masculine | American Dictionary

masculine
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmæs·kjə·lɪn/

masculineadjective[not gradable] (MALE)

having qualities traditionally considered to be suitable for a man:
It was a movie likely to appeal to a masculine audience.

masculineadjective[not gradable] (GRAMMAR)

grammar (abbreviationmasc.)
being a noun or pronoun of a type that refers to males, or in some other languages, being a noun of a type that refers to things considered as male

masculinity

noun[ U ]us/ˌmæs·kjəˈlɪn·ɪ·t̬i/
Boys need to see a wide range of masculinity to pattern their lives after.

Examples of masculine

masculine
The same pronoun is used for both masculine and feminine individuals and for subject and object case roles.
Perhaps, certain cultural (medical) practices elaborate on masculine, or respectively, feminine, themes.
Thus, for example, no differences were found in performance of masculine tasks, which men continued to dominate throughout all of the three stages examined.
These feminine features were comprehensively altered100 to masculine forms in a late-eleventh- or early-twelfth-century hand (or hands).
A noun is "masculine," "feminine," or "neuter" because it belongs to a set of nouns that use a particular set of agreement markers.
His act was richly meaningful in a context where questions of military policy, masculine citizenship, executive power, and national degeneration were already highly charged.
Such lines are termed feminine; otherwise a line is masculine.
Obviously, different groups of people may have different ideas of what constitutes a 'masculine' response.
A sexualized language of tyranny is employed to depict the degeneration of the masculine martial nation into a feminized corruption.
These two upper lines carry texts in the masculine voice emblematic of the courtly-love idiom.
This myth is the archetypal masculine role hallmarked by mastery and power.
Men's responsibility - indeed, masculine identity - is defined somewhat differently in the two categories of texts.
It has a three gender system with masculine, feminine, and neuter, which is mainly reflected in the form of the articles.
For the unbiased nonwords, there were 25 cases where all the items with a particular ending were classified as masculine.
In these accounts, the military should serve as a (stereotypically masculine coded) ordered, dignified force, rather than a site of (stereotypically feminine coded) unruliness.
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