Masculine

//ˈmæskjʊlɪn//

"Masculine" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The radio announcer had a masculine voice.

Joe's masculine smell made Louisa sick.

Men like to look masculine.

Some women look more masculine than feminine.

Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood has a neutral gender, while Charles Perrault's has a masculine one.

What examples of behaviour would you consider typically masculine?

Every noun in Portuguese is either masculine or feminine.

In dictionaries, "m.n." is abbreviation for masculine noun.

The penis is one of the masculine sexual organs.

Even though it has a masculine and feminine reproductive system, the earthworm requires another individual to bring forth fecundation.

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“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.

That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.

[…] a masculine church.

The noun Student is masculine in German.

German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.

Masculine caesura, masculine catalexis, masculine ending, masculine rhyme.

The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.

As to the class to which the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]

These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.

I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.

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