masculine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to men or boys; male.
2. adj. Suggestive or characteristic of a man; mannish. See Synonyms at male.
3. adj. Grammar Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to males or to things grammatically classified as male.
4. adj. Music Ending on an accented beat: a masculine cadence.
5. n. Grammar The masculine gender.
6. n. Grammar A word or word form of the masculine gender.
7. n. A male person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Male: opposed to female.
2. Having the distinguishing characteristics of the male sex among human beings, physical or mental; pertaining to a man or to men; of manlike quality: opposed to feminine: as, the masculine element of society; masculine spirit or courage.
3. As applied derogatively to women, unwomanly; bold; forward: as, her manners are coarse and masculine; she has a masculine air or stride.
4. Suitable for the male sex; adapted to or intended for the use of males: as, masculine garments.
5. In grammar, belonging to or having the characteristics of that one of the so-called genders into which the nouns, etc., of some languages are divided which includes as its prominent part the names of male beings; having inflections or forms belonging to such words: as, a masculine noun; a masculine termination. See gender. By statute in England and many of the United States, words of the masculine gender used in the general statutes include females unless the contrary intent appear. Abbreviated masculine and masculine
6. In botany, relating to stamens: same as male, 2.
7. n. In grammar, the masculine gender; a word of this gender.

Wiktionary

1. adj. pertaining to male humans, men:
2. adj. manly; having the qualities associated with men; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; not feminine or effeminate; virile (only in this sense, does the adjective compare)
3. adj. Henry Hallam — That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
4. adj. Thomas Fuller — A masculine church.
5. adj. male; having male biology, not female; of the male sex (rare)
6. adj. Geoffrey Chaucer — Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
7. adj. belonging to men; appropriated to, or used by, men
8. adj. “John”, “Paul”, and “Harry” are masculine names.
9. adj. in many inflected languages:
10. adj. This template needs documentation and categorisation. Please create the documentation page.being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner
11. adj. The noun Student is masculine in German.
12. adj. This template needs documentation and categorisation. Please create the documentation page.being inflected in agreement with the masculine
13. adj. German uses the masculine of the definite article, der, with Student.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of the male sex; not female.
2. adj. Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
3. adj. Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
4. adj. Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. associated with men and not with women
2. adj. (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
3. n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
4. adj. of grammatical gender