masculine
nouns
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
is a type of (narrower)
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
adjectives
of grammatical gender
associated with men and not with women
is similar to
characteristic of a man
"a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
is similar to
characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman
"true mannish arrogance"
see also
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
"a male infant"; "a male holly tree"
(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
"a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'"
is similar to
bearing a stress or accent
"an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
domain category
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
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