Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English. [countable] a masculine word or word form compare feminine, neuter See masculine in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Check pronunciation: masculineOther...
(grammar) (in some languages) belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns or adjectives that have masculine gender, not feminine or neuter The French word for ‘sun’ is masculine.Topics Languagec1 Word OriginSee masculine in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee masculine in the Oxford ...
Love how you’ve used and tweaked the stamps to create both a feminine and masculine card. Also left a comment on the SSS blog. Marianne x Leanne S says July 2, 2014 at 9:01 am Wonderful creation. Thanks for the opportunity to win. Renee VanEpps says July 2, 2014 at 12:28 p...
but I’d prefer something a little more masculine.She has a very masculine voice.Hunting was a typically masculine occupation.►seethesaurusatman2in some languages, amasculinenoun,pronounetcbelongsto aclassof words that have differentinflectionsfromfeminineorneuterwordsThe word for ‘book’ is mascu...
Most Western languages have some form of distinction between masculine and feminine nouns, with some of them adding neuter for good measure. 大多数西方语言,都有某些区别阳性名词和阴性名词的语言形式,其中有些还额外加上一个中性。 好啦,今天的小知识点,你学会了嘛?
and yet men have famously long had it even worse with their testosterone boosting potions, even if the thick, woody, oudhy sweet chocolate of the everything-but-the -kitchen-sink trend of some recent men’s fragrances has steered things in a slightly more ‘abundant’, and femininely peacoc...
If you liked other guys, you were probably a feminine guy. But what if you were masculine and liked other masculine guys? After much reading, I found that such was pretty common in the Greco-Roman world. The result of my research is the free (priceless?) book below, also available as...
If female equals the “female of the species” reproductively, and feminine a cultural construct if not oppression, then woman need not be feminine and feminism a path to throwing off that oppression. But does ‘woman’ need to be female? If one can be female but not a woman, can one ...
Using a heterosexual sample of men and women, Fasoli et al. (2017) found that recordings of feminine gay voices led to lower ratings of leadership effectiveness compared to masculine gay voices. The same effect was not found when using still pictures of faces. This was possibly due to the ...