masculines

Noun

masculine (plural masculines)

1. The masculine gender.
   • The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition
2. A word of the masculine gender.
   • As to the class to which the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]1905, George Theodore Dippold, A German grammar for high schools and colleges
3. That which is masculine.
   • These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.2004, Leonora Leet, The Universal Kabbalah
4. (obsolete, possibly, rare) A man.
   • I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.1868, The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine For The Home Circle. Volume XXXIX [39], page 458 (left column)

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