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单词 masculine
释义
masculine
adjective
uk
/ˈmæs.kjə.lɪn/us
/ˈmæs.kjə.lɪn/

masculineadjective(MALE)

C1
havingcharacteristicsthat aretraditionallythoughtto betypicalof orsuitablefor men:
男性的，男子气概的；适于男子的
a masculineappearance/voice男性外表／嗓音
Synonyms
manlyapproving
virile(MAN)approving
Compare
feminine(FEMALE)
More examples
  • Shelooksabitmasculine in thatsuit.
  • Hewanteda more masculinehairstyle.

masculineadjective(GRAMMAR)

language
(written abbreviationmasc.);(m)
belongingto thegroupofnouns,pronouns, etc. that are notfeminineorneuter:
（名词、代词等）阳性的
TheFrenchword for "sun"' is masculine but theGermanword isfeminine.法语中“太阳”一词是阳性的，但德语中的对应词却是阴性的。
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Grammar

Femaleorfeminine;maleormasculine?
We use female and male to refer to the sex of humans and animals:…
(Definition ofmasculinefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

masculine| American Dictionary

masculine
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈmæs·kjə·lɪn/

masculineadjective[not gradable](MALE)

havingqualitiestraditionallyconsideredto besuitablefor a man:
It was amovielikelytoappealto a masculineaudience.

masculineadjective[not gradable](GRAMMAR)

grammar
(abbreviationmasc.)
being anounorpronounof atypethat refers tomales, or in some otherlanguages, being anounof atypethat refers to thingsconsideredasmale

masculinity

noun[U]us
/ˌmæs·kjəˈlɪn·ɪ·t̬i/
Boys need toseeawiderangeof masculinity topatterntheirlivesafter.
(Definition ofmasculinefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmasculine

masculine
The same pronoun is used for bothmasculineand feminine individuals and for subject and object case roles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Perhaps, certain cultural (medical) practices elaborate onmasculine, or respectively, feminine, themes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus, for example, no differences were found in performance ofmasculinetasks, which men continued to dominate throughout all of the three stages examined.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These feminine features were comprehensively altered100 tomasculineforms in a late-eleventh- or early-twelfth-century hand (or hands).
From theCambridge English Corpus
A noun is "masculine," "feminine," or "neuter" because it belongs to a set of nouns that use a particular set of agreement markers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
His act was richly meaningful in a context where questions of military policy,masculinecitizenship, executive power, and national degeneration were already highly charged.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such lines are termed feminine; otherwise a line ismasculine.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Obviously, different groups of people may have different ideas of what constitutes a 'masculine' response.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A sexualized language of tyranny is employed to depict the degeneration of themasculinemartial nation into a feminized corruption.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These two upper lines carry texts in themasculinevoice emblematic of the courtly-love idiom.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This myth is the archetypalmasculinerole hallmarked by mastery and power.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Men's responsibility - indeed,masculineidentity - is defined somewhat differently in the two categories of texts.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It has a three gender system withmasculine, feminine, and neuter, which is mainly reflected in the form of the articles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For the unbiased nonwords, there were 25 cases where all the items with a particular ending were classified asmasculine.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In these accounts, the military should serve as a (stereotypicallymasculinecoded) ordered, dignified force, rather than a site of (stereotypically feminine coded) unruliness.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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