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1. Possessing qualities befitting a man
   - manly, manful, manlike
    
2. Of grammatical gender
    
3. Associated with men and not with women
    
4. (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable
   "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of 'annoy, enjoy'"

1. A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male

Derived forms: masculines

See also: accented, butch, macho, male, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, man-size, man-sized, stressed, virile

Type of: gender, grammatical gender

Antonym: feminine, neuter

Encyclopedia: Masculine