masculine
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This character is all about this image of masculine perfection and masculine ego, and a supposed war hero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Part of their unofficial relationship homework involves field missions that spark heated conversations about masculine insecurity and Diarra’s conflicted desires about motherhood.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
In many corners of the internet, tallow isn’t marketed simply as a moisturizer but as a return to something more primal and distinctly masculine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I grew up listening to a lot of masculine salsa and I thought it would be interesting to approach that type of energy from a woman’s perspective,” she explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
This encouraged me, but the theory was blown by such masculine nouns as murder, toothache, and Rollerblade.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The nominative of masculines of the first declension in Α belongs to the Latin, Homeric, Dryopian, Thessalian, Bœotian, Macedonian, and Elean dialects.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
The neuter nouns of the a-Declension differ from the masculines only in the N.A. plural.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith
We masculines took ourselves off for a while.
From Kitty's Conquest by Charles King
Nouns signifying males are masculines; as, fear a man, righ a king, sagart a priest, tarbh a bull, cu a dog.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
The masculines end in -a, the feminines and neuters in -e.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith