1. Adjective
Of the male sex; not female.
2. Adjective
Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
3. Adjective
Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
4. Adjective
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
5. Noun
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
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