Masculine Definition
măskyə-lĭn
adjective
Male; of men or boys.
Webster's New World
Having qualities regarded as characteristic of men and boys, as strength, vigor, boldness, etc.; manly; virile.
Webster's New World
Suitable to or characteristic of a man.
Webster's New World
Mannish.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting or referring to males, as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed.
Webster's New World
noun
The masculine gender.
Webster's New World
A word or form in this gender.
Webster's New World
A male person.
American Heritage Medicine
Origin of Masculine
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From Old French masculin, from Latin masculÄ«nus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly"), itself a diminutive of mās (“male").
From Wiktionary
Middle English masculin from Old French from Latin masculīnus from masculus male diminutive of mās
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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