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