Dictionary Entry
male
male is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Mal-. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1
See Mal-.
- 2adjective
Evil; wicked; bad.
- 3noun
Same as Mail, a bag.
- 4transitive verb
Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
- 5transitive verb
Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
- 6transitive verb
Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
- 7transitive verb
Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
- 8transitive verb
Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
- 9noun
An animal of the male sex.
- 10noun
A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
- 11noun
an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
- 12noun
the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands
- 13noun
a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
- 14adjective
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"
- 15adjective
for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
"the male lead"
"the male population"
- 16adjective
characteristic of a man
"a deep male voice"
"manly sports"
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