Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
Examples
“By such additions as certain Plainsong settings and tunes for adult male voices, the effort is made to appeal to various temperaments and abilities.”
“An adult male was found drowned in the hotel pool at eleven-fifteen this evening.”
“At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.”
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
“A pederast is the Greek-based word for an adult male who desires boys only.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Actually more like an impish fallen cherub since the guy was probably all of twenty-five, making Daniel's hundred-percent adult male hard lines vibrate tension through the air.”
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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