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Masculine   /mˈæskjələn/   Listen
Masculine

adjective
1.
Of grammatical gender.
2.
Associated with men and not with women.
3.
(music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable.  "The masculine rhyme of 'annoy, enjoy'"
noun
1.
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male.






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"Masculine" Quotes from Famous Books



... refinement in one's language. There were no young men here, happily, to hear them; but if there had been, they would have expressed themselves in the same manner. That is what I cannot understand, now girls can lay aside their dignity and borrow masculine fashions. What a little lady Christine would have seemed beside them! Chrissy ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... be, it wasn't a pleasant situation for these two, so isolated from their neighbors, and without even Montgomery's presence. Mere lad as he was, he was still something masculine, and at least his grandmother believed him to be a very hero for courage. But he was not there to "protect" them from the possible annoyance of this unknown creature, and now, gently leading the frightened maid, Madam went back to her untasted supper and sat down in her ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

... the gender of the object was in the language of the nation masculine or feminine, the Divinity who bore its name was male or female. Thus the Cappadocians called the moon God, and the sun Goddess: a circumstance which gives to the same beings a perpetual variety ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney

... sure she would not have turned me over for an answer to a letter written with so contrite and fervent a spirit, as was mine to her, to a masculine spirit, had she ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson

... Daisy," said Preston—"don't you turn into a masculine, muscular woman, that can walk her twenty miles and wear hobnailed shoes—like the Yankees you are among. Don't forget that you are the daughter of ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell


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