- male; of men or boys
- having qualities regarded as characteristic of men and boys, as strength, vigor, boldness, etc.; manly; virile
- suitable to or characteristic of a man
- mannish: said of women
- Gram. 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
- Music designating or of a cadence ending on an accented note or chord
- Prosody
- ending with a stressed syllable, as a line of verse
- designating or of rhyme in which the rhyming elements are stressed final syllables (Ex.: hill/fill, enjoy/destroy)
Origin of masculine
Middle English masculyn from Old French masculin from Classical Latin masculinus from masculus, male from mas, male- the masculine gender
- a word or form in this gender
