male

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ adult, mature

▪ adolescent, immature, juvenile, young

▪ old

▪ alpha, dominant

▪

the dominant male in the herd

▪ gay, heterosexual, homosexual

▪ red-blooded

▪ African American, black, Caucasian (esp. AmE), white

▪ large, powerful, strong (all biology)

▪ courting, monogamous, unmated (all biology)

PHRASES

▪ the male of the species

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The male of the species has darker feathers.

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be

ADVERB

▪ entirely, exclusively

▪

The club is exclusively male.

▪ largely, mainly, mostly, overwhelmingly, predominantly, primarily

▪

The workforce is predominantly male.

▪ very

▪

I had grown up in a very male environment.

▪

That was a very male way of dealing with things.

▪ typically

▪ traditionally

▪

traditionally male interests

Male is used with these nouns: ↑anatomy, ↑body, ↑bravado, ↑chauvinism, ↑chauvinist, ↑chorus, ↑colleague, ↑companion, ↑companionship, ↑counterpart, ↑cousin, ↑dancer, ↑deity, ↑doctor, ↑dominance, ↑domination, ↑ego, ↑elephant, ↑employee, ↑employment, ↑equivalent, ↑escort, ↑fantasy, ↑fashion, ↑friend, ↑gender, ↑genitals, ↑goat, ↑heir, ↑homosexual, ↑hormone, ↑identity, ↑impotence, ↑infant, ↑infertility, ↑inmate, ↑kin, ↑lead, ↑lover, ↑lust, ↑member, ↑menopause, ↑model, ↑nurse, ↑occupation, ↑oppression, ↑orgasm, ↑parent, ↑partner, ↑perspective, ↑population, ↑prerogative, ↑prostitute, ↑prostitution, ↑reader, ↑relative, ↑role, ↑servant, ↑sex, ↑sexuality, ↑sibling, ↑soprano, ↑specimen, ↑superiority, ↑supremacy, ↑teacher, ↑trait, ↑twin, ↑vanity, ↑victim, ↑violence, ↑voice, ↑worker, ↑workforce, ↑writer, ↑youth