masculine
adjective/ˈmæskjəlɪn/
/ˈmæskjəlɪn/
- having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of men; connected with or like men
- He was handsome and strong, and very masculine.
- I feel quite masculine in this suit.
Extra ExamplesTopics People in societyc1- She has strong, masculine features.
- That's a typically masculine attitude!
- We assume that stereotypically masculine traits are more suited to the military.
- More women are now entering traditionally masculine domains such as construction.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- (grammar) belonging to a class of words that refer to male people or animals and often have a special form
- ‘He’ and ‘him’ are masculine pronouns.
- (grammar) (in some languages) belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns or adjectives that have masculine gender, not feminine or neuter
- The French word for ‘sun’ is masculine.
Word Originlate Middle English (in grammatical use): via Old French from Latin masculinus, from masculus ‘male’.
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