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.
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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
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Male is also an adjective.
After mating the male wasps tunnel through the sides of their nursery.
≠ female
ADJ