masculine
Of or pertaining to the male gender.
Other meanings
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Related words
- masculine caesura
- masculine ending
- masculine of center
- masculine rhyme
- demasculinization
- emasculate
- masculinely
- masculineness
- masculinism
- antimasculine
- cismasculine
- hypermasculine
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "masculīnus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “masculine” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.