masculine

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more masculinemost masculine

Superlative

1.
Of or pertaining to the male gender.
2.
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
Đồng nghĩa: male
3.
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.
4.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate; manly.
Đồng nghĩa: manly, virile
5.
(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
6.
(grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a back vowel.
7.
(prosody) Following or ending on a stressed syllable.
Masculine caesura, masculine catalexis, masculine ending, masculine rhyme.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

masculinesm.

1.
(grammar) The masculine gender.
2.
(grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
3.
That which is masculine.
4.
(obsolete, possibly, rare)(rare, possibly obsolete) A man.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

malemanly virile

Trái nghĩa

female womanlyeffeminateemasculatedepicene unmanly

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (male, manly), itself a diminutive of mās (male). Displaced native werlīċ.