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Male   /meɪl/   Listen
Male

adjective
1.
Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation.  "A male holly tree"
2.
Characteristic of a man.  Synonyms: manful, manlike, manly, virile.  "Manly sports"
3.
For or pertaining to or composed of men or boys.  "The male population"
noun
1.
An animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova).
2.
A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies.  Synonym: male person.
3.
The capital of Maldives in the center of the islands.



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"Male" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fulton than was done. He has his Lucy, what there is left of her, his children, and a greater financial success than ever he hoped for. And he has had his triumph over me. He must have told her, in some of his bad moments, just what kind of a man I was—a waster, a male flirt, a man who had the impulse to raise the devil, but lacked the courage, and the character. And she knows now, after her short period of over-powering love for me and belief in me, that he was right. That is his triumph. I think he is too good a ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... terrible creature. She loves me, I think, but she is a killer and a cannibal among other insects. I wanted to pair her with a male ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... differences which, under close scrutiny, may fairly be said to exist. These differences are quite as noticeable at the breakfast-table as in the court-room; and are no more patent to the advocate than to the ordinary male animal whose forehead habitually reddens when he hears the unanswerable reason which, in default of all others, explains and glorifies the mental action of his wife, sister or mother: ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train

... Jaffa Colonists. At Jaffa we had taken on board some forty members of a very celebrated community. They were male and female; babies, young boys and young girls; young married people, and some who had passed a shade beyond the prime of life. I refer to the "Adams Jaffa Colony." Others had deserted before. We left in Jaffa Mr. Adams, his wife, and fifteen unfortunates ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... consideration. There is only so much work—a limited quantity—in the world: so many hands for whom occupation can be found—and the number of hands wanted does not very greatly exceed that of the male hands ready for it. Now, by giving this work to women, we take it from the men. If we open the Civil Service to women, we take so many posts from the men, which we give to the women, at a lower salary; if they ...
— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant


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