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Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
Jeff Buckley

Meaning of "masculine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MASCULINE

Via French from Latin masculīnus, from masculus male, from mās a male.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MASCULINE

masculine  [ˈmæskjʊlɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MASCULINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Masculine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MASCULINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

masculine

Masculinity

Masculinity is a set of qualities, characteristics or roles generally considered typical of, or appropriate to, a man. It can have degrees of comparison: "more masculine", "most masculine'". The opposite can be expressed by terms such as "unmanly" or epicene. A near-synonym of masculinity is virility. Constructs of masculinity vary across historical and cultural contexts. The dandy, for instance, was regarded as an ideal of masculinity in the 19th century, but is considered effeminate by modern standards. Traditional masculine norms, as described in Dr. Ronald F. Levant's Masculinity Reconstructed are: "avoidance of femininity; restricted emotions; sex disconnected from intimacy; pursuit of achievement and status; self-reliance; strength; and aggression; and homophobia." These norms serve to produce and reproduce gender roles by symbolically associating specific attributes and characteristics with each gender. Academic study of masculinity underwent a massive expansion of interest in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with courses in the United States dealing with masculinity rising from 30 to over 300.

Definition of masculine in the English dictionary

The first definition of masculine in the dictionary is possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a man; manly. Other definition of masculine is unwomanly. Masculine is also denoting a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some male animate referents.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MASCULINE


aesculin
ˈiːskjʊlɪn
antiglobulin
ˌæntɪˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
botulin
ˈbɒtjʊlɪn
calmodulin
kəlˈmɒdjʊlɪn
folliculin
fɒˈlɪkjʊlɪn
globulin
ˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
hypermasculine
ˌhaɪpəˈmæskjʊlɪn
immunoglobulin
ˌɪmjʊnəʊˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
insulin
ˈɪnsjʊlɪn
inulin
ˈɪnjʊlɪn
lactoglobulin
ˌlæktəʊˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
levulin
ˈlɛvjʊlɪn
macroglobulin
ˌmækrəʊˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
proinsulin
prəʊˈɪnsjʊlɪn
supermasculine
ˌsuːpərˈmæskjʊlɪn
thyroglobulin
ˌθaɪrəʊˈɡlɒbjʊlɪn
tuberculin
tjʊˈbɜːkjʊlɪn
tubulin
ˈtjuːbjʊlɪn
ultramasculine
ˌʌltrəˈmæskjʊlɪn
unmasculine
ʌnˈmæskjʊlɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MASCULINE

mascaraed
Mascarene Islands
mascaron
mascarpone
mascle
mascon
mascot
mascot rage
masculine ending
masculine rhyme
masculinely
masculineness
masculinisation
masculinise
masculinist
masculinity
masculinization
masculinize
masculist
masculy

WORDS THAT END LIKE MASCULINE

acauline
baculine
cauline
figuline
hotline
induline
line
lupuline
multicauline
nummuline
offline
on line
Pauline
penduline
primuline
reguline
sabuline
traguline
Ursuline
vituline

Synonyms and antonyms of masculine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MASCULINE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «masculine» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of masculine

Translation of «masculine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MASCULINE

Find out the translation of masculine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of masculine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «masculine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男性的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

masculino
570 millions of speakers

English

masculine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मर्दाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذَكَرُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мужской
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

masculino
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুংলিঙ্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

masculin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Maskulin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

männlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

男らしい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남성적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lanang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc đàn ông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆண்பால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्दानी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eril
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maschile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

męski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чоловічий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

masculin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανδρικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

manlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

maskulin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maskulin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of masculine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MASCULINE»

The term «masculine» is very widely used and occupies the 17.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MASCULINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «masculine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «masculine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about masculine

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10 QUOTES WITH «MASCULINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word masculine.
1
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Scott Bakula
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
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Jakob Bohme
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
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Heywood Broun
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
5
Jeff Buckley
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
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Henry Cavill
I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.
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Park Chan-wook
I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Carol P. Christ
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
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Kate Clinton
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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David Deida
The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASCULINE»

Discover the use of masculine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to masculine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in ...
DIVA major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet./div "Highly original and deeply probing in its ...
Maurice O. Wallace, 2002
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Masculine Domination
Bourdieu analyzes masculine domination as a prime example of symbolic violence—the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence experienced through the everyday practices of social life. " . . . [The] value of the book lies very much in ...
Pierre Bourdieu, 2001
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Betwixt & Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation
Betwixt and Between offers new insights into the basic elements of initiations and rites of passage.
Louise Carus Mahdi, Steven Foster, Meredith Little, 1987
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Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior
"" -Andrew Harvey, Author of "The Hope a Guide to Sacred Activism" "Awakening the New Masculine" is a bridge from the first wave of the mythopoetic men's movement of the last twenty-five years to what is only now beginning to emerge.
Gary L. Stamper, 2012
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Masculine
A debut compilation of male nude photography features some sixty arresting four-color photographs that capture the beauty of the male form. 20,000 first printing. 60 4-color photographs.
George Machado, 1995
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema’s formative years, from 1957 to 1962.
Geneviève Sellier, 2008
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Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism
Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural ...
Richard Dellamora, 1990
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Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and ...
Traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in hip-hop music and film.
Ronald L. Jackson II, 2006
9
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in ...
Goes beyond conventional tropes describing women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political and religious forces thwarting their emancipation.
Madawi Al-Rasheed, 2013
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Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in 'New ...
This book comprises a genuine attempt to negotiate the violent dialectics of pro-feminist masculinism and white postcolonialism, and to use those negotiations as a way of reading a rapidly changing world.'
Daniel Coleman, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASCULINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term masculine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Here's the one masculine issue Caitlyn Jenner still has since …
The 65-year-old Olympian - who was previously known as Bruce Jenner before announcing her transition to female earlier this year - admitted ... «Channel 24, Jul 15»
2
Only a boob would think Serena Williams looks masculine - Ellwood …
It sounds absurd now, but there was a time, some years ago, when Serena Williams was not the world's top-ranked female tennis player. «Ellwood City Ledger, Jul 15»
3
Luck Just Kissed You Hello review – a blistering exploration of …
It is as if Conroy is exploring the possibility of a specifically masculine form of playwriting, to match her subject matter. Gary (Will O'Connell) and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Naked In New York: Why More Of Us Are Taking It All Off | | Observer
“I think there is a collective yearning for release, letting go and freedom that the Type A, yang masculine personality craves. That was my ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
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Notable & Quotable - WSJ
Society identifies these cues as masculine and feminine, although what is considered masculine and feminine changes over time and varies by ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
Figs: Masculine, Feminine, or Transcendent? - Slog - The Stranger
There's a very big, very old fig tree growing in the backyard of my apartment building, and every summer around this time they ripen into big ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
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A Men's Eyebrow Grooming Guide In 6 Easy Steps - Huffington Post
"Bradley Cooper has a masculine face and always has a beard. Seeing great brows like his can make a guy look like he has a great head of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
Fiat 124 Spider said to have "masculine" styling
Giolito described the upcoming droptop sports car as "very masculine" and "not at all 'delicate.'" This image is something the 2016 MX-5 ... «LeftLane News, Jul 15»
9
Ronda Rousey knocks out ESPN's masculine myths: Bloomberg …
Ronda Rousey knocks out ESPN's masculine myths: Bloomberg View. 1rousey.JPG. UFC fighter Ronda Rousey accepts the best female ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
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New Fiat 124 roadster will be 'very masculine', says design boss …
If you lust after a small, back-to-basics roadster but can't handle the social stigma of driving around in a Mazda MX-5, then do we have some ... «Top Gear, Jul 15»

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