male

1. 1.

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation

   “a male infant”

   “a male holly tree”

   Antonymsfemaleandrogynous

   Similarantheralphallicpriapicyoung-begetting

   biology

2. 2.

   characteristic of a man

   “a deep male voice”

   “manly sports”

   Synonymsmanfulmanlikemanlyvirile

   Similarmasculine
3. 3.

   for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys

   “the male lead”

   “the male population”

Other forms of male

plural

males·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about male

What does male mean?

male means "an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in male?

male has 1 syllable: male. In IPA it is /ˈmeɪl/.

What is another word for male?

Close synonyms include male person, manful, manlike, manly, virile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of male?

The recorded antonyms are female, female, female, androgynous.

Is male a common word?

male is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with male?

7 words rhyme with male. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.