Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - masculine
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Masculine
masculine
I. adjective Etymology: Middle English masculin, from Latin masculinus, from masculus, noun, male, diminutive of mas male Date: 14th century 1. a. male b. having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man 2. of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males ~ nouns 3. a. having or occurring in a stressed final syllable ~ rhyme b. having the final chord occurring on a strong beat ~ cadence • ~ly adverb • masculinity noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. the ~ gender 2. a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the ~ gender 3. a male person
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or characteristic of men. 2 manly, vigorous. 3 (of a woman) having qualities considered appropriate to a man. 4 Gram. of or denoting the gender proper to men's names. --n. Gram. the masculine gender; a masculine word. Derivatives masculinely adv. masculineness n. masculinity n. Etymology: ME f. OF masculin -ine f. L masculinus (as MALE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. грам. мужской род; слово мужского рода 2. лицо мужского пола; мужчина; мальчик 3. мужской masculine attire —- мужская одежда masculine descent —- потомство мужского пола 4. грам. мужского рода masculine noun —- существительное мужского рода 5. стих. мужской (о рифме) 6. мужественный; сильный, энергичный masculine features —- мужественные черты лица 7. мужеподобный (о женщине) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun; gram. 1) мужской род 2) слово мужского рода 2. adj. 1) мужской 2) мужественный 3) мужеподобная (о женщине) Syn: male, manly, mannish, virile Ant: feminine ...Англо-русский словарь
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1. Masculine qualities and things relate to or are considered typical of men, in contrast to women. ...masculine characteristics like a husky voice and facial hair. ...masculine pride. = male ? female ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. If you say that someone or something is masculine, you mean that they have qualities such as strength or confidence which are considered typical of men. ...her aggressive, masculine image... The Duke’s study was very masculine, with deep red wall-covering and dark oak shelving. ? feminine ADJ 3. In some languages, a masculine noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a feminine or neuter one, or behaves in a different way. ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ adj 1 belonging to men, done by men, or considered to be typical of men (a masculine approach to the problem | traditionally masculine subjects such as physics | a dark, masculine face) 2 if a woman's appearance or voice is masculine, it is like a man's 3 belonging to the class of words for males (`Drake' is the masculine word for `duck'.) 4 a masculine n, pronoun etc belongs to a class of words that have different inflections from feminine or neuter words (The word for 'book' is masculine in French.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1350, from O.Fr. masculin, from L. masculinus "male, of masculine gender," from masculus, dim. of mas (gen. maris) "male person, male." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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