1. masculine - Noun
2. masculine - Adjective
3. masculine - Adjective Satellite
Of the male sex; not female.
Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. George Boole
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. Judith Butler
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. Betty Friedan
The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions. Helen Rowland
Words are feminine, deeds masculine. French Proverb