- being a man or boy
- a male friend/colleague/partner
- a male nurse/model/dancer
- All the participants were male, aged between 25 and 30.
- The workforce is predominantly male.
- There are three lead male characters in the film.
- Female students asked more questions than their male counterparts.
Homophones mail | malemail male/meɪl//meɪl/- mail noun
- I think the card got lost in the mail.
- mail verb
- I'll mail you a formal invitation.
- male adjective
- The male characters in the novel are all well drawn.
- male noun
- The strongest male will become the leader of the pack.
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societya2- Nate Parker was the romantic male lead in the film.
- His only male role model is his school soccer coach, Ben.
- Stomach cancer was the third most common cause of cancer mortality in the male population.
- a decrease in the ratio of male to female babies
- (abbreviation m)belonging to the sex that does not lay eggs or give birth to babies
- a male bird
- male hormones/fertility/sexuality
Extra ExamplesTopics Biologya2- In the past, scientists studied male physiology and applied the findings to women.
- Beautiful male bodies abound in the visual art of the period.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- entirely
- exclusively
- largely
- …
- of men; typical of men; affecting men
- male attitudes to women
- traditionally male interests
- The club is an exclusively male preserve.
- (British English) a male voice choir
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societya2- Indigenous male life expectancy is 69 years.
- I had grown up in a very male environment.
- That was a very male way of dealing with things.
- an essentially male Western view of progress
- (biology) (of a plant or flower) producing pollen
- Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins.
- Pollen has not been investigated, as male flowers were not available.
- (specialist) (of electrical plugs, parts of tools, etc.) having a part that sticks out that is designed to fit into a hole, socket, etc.
- male connectors/adapters
- A male connector and a female connector plug into each other.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French masle, from Latin masculus, from mas ‘a male’.
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