| 单词 | masculine |
| 释义 | masculine (once / 797 pages) 1adjn 2adj If something’s masculine, it’s related to men. When you hear a masculine voice outside greeting your neighbor, you know it’s your dad and not your mom. Masculine can describe people or things that have qualities often associated with men. If someone has a masculine appearance, the person is probably tall and strong. If your new jacket has masculine tailoring, that means it’s cut like a man’s jacket. Masculine can also refer to words. In many languages, words — especially nouns — are given a gender. If you’ve studied French or Spanish, you know you need to figure out which article to use with a masculine noun. WORD FAMILYmasculine: masculinely, masculines, masculinise, masculinity, masculinize+/demasculinize: demasculinizes/masculinise: demasculinise, masculinisation, masculinised/masculinity: masculinities/masculinize: demasculinize, masculinization, masculinized, masculinizes, masculinizing USAGE EXAMPLES“I’m interested in military topics, masculine hobbies, hard, tough, extreme things, things that require you to overcome physical discomfort,” he said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Despite his life with Laura, Paterson’s world is a man’s world, a world of stifled masculine violence. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) Efforts to connect the war to fears of masculine inadequacy seem now almost as comical as Bellows’s work is macabre. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1adj associated with men and not with women Syn|Ant manful, manlike, manly possessing qualities befitting a man malebeing the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation butch, machoused of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner male, manful, manlike, manly, virilecharacteristic of a man mannishcharacteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman feminine associated with women and not with men femalebeing the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop fairattractively feminine distaff, femalecharacteristic of or peculiar to a woman maidenlike, maidenlybefitting or characteristic of a maiden powder-puffused of competitive activities in which only women take part feminineof grammatical gender 2adj of grammatical gender Ant feminine of grammatical gender neuterof grammatical gender feminineassociated with women and not with men 3n a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male 2Hyper gender, grammatical gender 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 adj (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable a masculine cadence the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy' Syn accented, stressed bearing a stress or accent |
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