MALE


Meaning of MALE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ meɪl ]

( males)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Someone who is male is a man or a boy.

Many women achievers appear to pose a threat to their male colleagues...

Most of the demonstrators were white and male.

≠ female

ADJ

• male‧ness

...the solidarity among men which is part of maleness.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

Men and boys are sometimes referred to as males when they are being considered as a type.

A high proportion of crime is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.

= man

≠ female

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3.

Male means relating, belonging, or affecting men rather than women.

The rate of male unemployment in Britain is now the third worst in Europe.

...a deep male voice.

≠ female

ADJ : ADJ n

4.

You can refer to any creature that belongs to the sex that cannot lay eggs or have babies as a male .

Males and females take turns brooding the eggs.

≠ female

N-COUNT

Male is also an adjective.

After mating the male wasps tunnel through the sides of their nursery.

≠ female

ADJ

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