单词 | masculine |
释义 | mas·cu·line I. 1. < accompanied by a masculine member of her family — Joseph Hergesheimer > < the woman's masculine partner — C.S.Ford & F.A.Beach > 2. a. < masculine nouns > < a masculine suffix > < masculine gender > — compare feminine b. (1) of a syllable (2) of rhyme 3. a. < the brazier … is essentially a masculine thing — Edmund Vale > < the worn leather armchair … was as masculine and durable as the benches in a railway waiting room — Walter de la Mare > < the mountain stands … ruggedly masculine in outline — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > b. of a sign of the zodiac c. (1) < the poem is almost exclusively a masculine method of expression — C.W.Cunnington > < a sea of languishing masculine glances — Elinor Wylie > < had this skill as well as the masculine ones of riding and shooting — Jean Stafford > (2) < the invasion was a purely masculine one — Seamus MacCall > < have created a masculine country — H.S.Commager > < the industry is wholly masculine — R.H.Lowie > (3) < a big, active, masculine creature — Margaret Deland > < she cannot manage masculine men — Edward Sackville-West > < a contagious masculine book — Encyc. Americana > (4) < gaunt and masculine with … mousey hair plastered back above her ears — Leslie Charteris > (5) obsolete Synonyms: see male II. a. b. (1) (2) |
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