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What does male mean?

Definitions for male
ˈmɑ leɪ, -limale

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word male.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. malenoun

    an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

  2. male, male personnoun

    a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

  3. Maleadjective

    the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

  4. maleadjective

    being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation

    "a male infant"; "a male holly tree"

  5. male, manful, manlike, manly, virileadjective

    characteristic of a man

    "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"

  6. maleadjective

    for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys

    "the male lead"; "the male population"

Wiktionary

  1. malenoun

    Someone of male, masculine gender, whether human, (sexual) animal or (sexual) plant

  2. malenoun

    A member of the sex that has organs which produce sperm

  3. maleadjective

    Belonging to the sex which produces sperm.

  4. maleadjective

    Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals

  5. maleadjective

    Inherently characteristic of the male of a species

  6. maleadjective

    Of instruments or tools: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting

  7. Malénoun

    The capital of the Maldives

  8. Etymology: male, borrowed from masle, malle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus, diminutive of mas.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Male

    in composition, signifies ill, from male, Latin; male, old French.

  2. Maleadjective

    Of the sex that begets young; not female.

    Etymology: male, French; masculus, Lat.

    Which shall be heir of the two male twins, who, by the dissection of the mother, were laid open to the world? John Locke.

    You are the richest person in the commonwealth; you have no male child; your daughters are all married to wealthy patricians. Jonathan Swift, Examiner, №. 27.

  3. Malenoun

    The he of any species.

    In most the male is the greater, and in some few the female. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 852.

    There be more males than females, but in different proportions. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

ChatGPT

  1. male

    A male is a biological and genetic sex that is typically associated with the production of small mobile sex cells called sperm in animals, including humans. In societal context, male also refers to an individual who identifies with characteristics traditionally and culturally associated with men, such as masculinity. The term can be used to categorize humans, animals, and plants.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Maleadjective

    evil; wicked; bad

  2. Malenoun

    same as Mail, a bag

  3. Maleverb

    of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs

  4. Maleverb

    capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them

  5. Maleverb

    suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage

  6. Maleverb

    consisting of males; as, a male choir

  7. Maleverb

    adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc

  8. Malenoun

    an animal of the male sex

  9. Malenoun

    a plant bearing only staminate flowers

  10. Etymology: [L. malus. See Malice.]

Wikidata

  1. Male

    A male organism is the physiological sex which produces sperm. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically, but in some species it can be determined due to social, environmental or other factors.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Male

    māl, n. (Spens.) mail, armour.

  2. Male

    māl, adj. masculine: pertaining to the sex that begets (not bears) young: (bot.) bearing stamens.—n. one of the male sex: a he-animal: a stamen-bearing plant.—n. Male′-fern, an elegant fern, with the fronds growing in a crown.—Male order, in architecture, the Doric order; Male rhymes, those in which only the final syllables correspond; Male screw, a screw whose threads correspond to and enter the spiral grooves of the female screw. [O. Fr. male—L. masculus, male—mas, a male.]

Editors Contribution

  1. male

    A type of human being with a penis that produces sperm at a specific age of maturity and development.

    The male species are very beautiful and we call them gentlemen.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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Entomology

  1. Male

    that sex having organs for the production of spermatozoa: designated by "?", the astronomical sign for Mars. {Scanner's comment: The sign for Mars being an diagonal arrow rising from a circle, and pointing upwards towards the right.}

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MALE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Male is ranked #16265 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Male surname appeared 1,773 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Male.

    78.6% or 1,395 total occurrences were White.
    7.2% or 128 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.4% or 115 total occurrences were Black.
    4% or 71 total occurrences were Asian.
    2.4% or 43 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 21 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'male' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1116

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'male' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2622

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'male' in Nouns Frequency: #1038

  4. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'male' in Adjectives Frequency: #139

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Anagrams for male »

  1. amel

  2. Elam

  3. Elma

  4. lame

  5. lamé

  6. leam

  7. lema

  8. meal

  9. mela

  10. alme

  11. alem

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of male in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of male in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of male in a Sentence

  1. Lyndon B. Johnson:

    To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

  2. Joe Argueta:

    One male was armed with a baseball bat and the other male with a pistol. When Dodge Challenger attempted to flee, the male with the pistol fired multiple gunshots at the passenger side of Dodge Challenger.

  3. Joe Gacy:

    Tonight this ring is a safe space, nXT 2.0 is full of conflict, from the smallest microaggression to the most heinous grudges. This is a place where we settle our differences. I come to you tonight with a mindset of conflict resolution where I don't need to use my male privilege to get what I want.

  4. Madison Thomas:

    What the hearings told me was that our country, our congressmen, value the reputation and the career aspirations of my male classmates, or men, of my assaulter, more than my bodily autonomy.

  5. Marguerite Duras:

    She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

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