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masculine 音标拼音: [m'æskjələn] n. 阳性,男性
a. 男性的,阳性的,有丈夫气的 阳性,男性男性的,阳性的,有丈夫气的 masculine adj 1: of grammatical gender [ ant: { feminine}, { neuter}] 2: associated with men and not with women [ ant: { feminine}] 3: ( music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; " a masculine cadence"; " the masculine rhyme of ` annoy, enjoy'" n 1: a gender that refers chiefly ( but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as malemasculine \ mas" cu* line\ ( m[ a^] s" k[- u]* l[ i^] n), a. [ L. masculinus, fr. masculus male, manly, dim. of mas a male: cf. F. masculin. See { Male} masculine.] 1. Of the male sex; not female. [ 1913 Webster] Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust. [ 1913 Webster] That lady, after her husband' s death, held the reins with a masculine energy. -- Hallam. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. [ R.] " A masculine church." -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Gram.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from { feminine} and { neuter}. See { Gender}. -- { Mas" cu* line* ly}, adv. -- { Mas" cu* line* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " masculine": andric, animate, bull, common gender, feminine, gender, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, he, him, his, hombre, homme, inanimate, male, male being, male person, man, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, neuter, uneffeminate
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