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Noun

S: (n) male (an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova))
S: (n) male, male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

direct hyponym / full hyponym

S: (n) boy wonder (an extremely talented young male person)
S: (n) chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke (a boy or man) "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"

S: (n) dog (informal term for a man) "you lucky dog"

S: (n) foster-brother, foster brother (your foster brother is a male who is not a son of your parents but who is raised by your parents)
S: (n) macho (a male exhibiting or characterized by machismo)
S: (n) male child, boy (a youthful male person) "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

S: (n) altar boy (a boy serving as an acolyte)
S: (n) ball boy (a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players)
S: (n) bat boy ((baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment)
S: (n) cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy (a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy))
S: (n) catamite (a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man)
S: (n) farm boy (a boy who has grown up on a farm)
S: (n) Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy (an excessively polite and well-dressed boy)
S: (n) plowboy, ploughboy (a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow)
S: (n) schoolboy (a boy attending school)
S: (n) Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)

S: (n) Boy Scout (a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts)

S: (n) Cub Scout (a junior Boy Scout)
S: (n) Eagle Scout (a Boy Scout who has earned many merit badges)
S: (n) rover, scouter (an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement)
S: (n) Sea Scout (a Boy Scout enrolled in programs for water activities)

S: (n) Girl Scout (a girl who is a member of the Girl Scouts)

S: (n) Brownie (a junior Girl Scout)

S: (n) shop boy (a young male shop assistant)

S: (n) male offspring, man-child (a child who is male)

S: (n) son, boy (a male human offspring) "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is"

S: (n) Junior, Jr, Jnr (a son who has the same first name as his father)
S: (n) mother's boy, mamma's boy, mama's boy (a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests)
S: (n) Esau ((Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage)

S: (n) man, adult male (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)) "there were two women and six men on the bus"

S: (n) white man (a man who is White)

S: (n) good old boy, good ole boy, good ol' boy (a white male Southerner with an unpretentious convivial manner and conservative or intolerant attitudes and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group)
S: (n) squaw man (derogatory term for a white man married to a North American Indian woman)

S: (n) babu, baboo (used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr')
S: (n) bachelor, unmarried man (a man who has never been married)
S: (n) bey ((formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt) "he introduced me to Ahmet Bey"
S: (n) boy (a friendly informal reference to a grown man) "he likes to play golf with the boys"

S: (n) broth of a boy, broth of a man (an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth)
S: (n) one of the boys (a man who has been socially accepted into a group of other men) "he quickly became one of the boys"

S: (n) boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain (a man who is the lover of a man or woman) "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked"; "When the law changed, Pet could finally married his long-time boyfriend Jim"
S: (n) ex-boyfriend (a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend)
S: (n) bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson (a large and strong and heavyset man) "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
S: (n) dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)

S: (n) coxcomb, cockscomb (a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments)
S: (n) macaroni (a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms) "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"
S: (n) Brummell, George Bryan Brummell, Beau Brummell (English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840))

S: (n) ejaculator (a man who ejaculates semen)
S: (n) Esquire, Esq (a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name)
S: (n) eunuch, castrate (a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction) "eunuchs guarded the harem"
S: (n) father figure, father surrogate (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)

S: (n) foster-father, foster father (a man who is a foster parent)
S: (n) stepfather (the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage)

S: (n) father-figure (a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically)
S: (n) fellow, dude, buster (an informal form of address for a man) "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?"
S: (n) galoot (a disreputable or clumsy man)
S: (n) geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
S: (n) gentleman (a man of refinement)

S: (n) Don (a Spanish gentleman or nobleman)
S: (n) gent (informal abbreviation of `gentleman')
S: (n) gentleman-at-arms (one of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions)

S: (n) grass widower, divorced man (a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife)
S: (n) guy, cat, hombre, bozo, sod (an informal term for a youth or man) "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll"; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink"
S: (n) Herr (a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English)
S: (n) Hooray Henry (a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man)
S: (n) housefather (a man in charge of children in an institution)
S: (n) hunk (a well-built sexually attractive man)
S: (n) ex-husband, ex (a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband)
S: (n) inamorato (a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship)
S: (n) iron man, ironman (a strong man of exceptional physical endurance)
S: (n) ironside (a man of great strength or bravery)
S: (n) adonis (any handsome young man)
S: (n) middle-aged man (a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old)

S: (n) dirty old man (a middle-aged man with lecherous inclinations)

S: (n) Monsieur (used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr')
S: (n) old boy, old man (a familiar term of address for a man)
S: (n) old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah (a man who is very old)

S: (n) codger, old codger (used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man)
S: (n) old-timer, oldtimer, gaffer, old geezer, antique (an elderly man)
S: (n) patriarch (a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself)

S: (n) patriarch, paterfamilias (the male head of family or tribe)
S: (n) Peter Pan (a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up)
S: (n) ponce (a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses)
S: (n) posseman (an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse)
S: (n) Senhor (a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr')
S: (n) shaver (an adult male who shaves)
S: (n) signor, signior (used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately)
S: (n) signore (an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name))
S: (n) sir (term of address for a man)
S: (n) stiff (an ordinary man) "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
S: (n) stud, he-man, macho-man (a man who is virile and sexually active)
S: (n) Tarzan ((sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs))
S: (n) widower, widowman (a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried)
S: (n) womanizer, womaniser, philanderer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)

S: (n) Casanova (any man noted for his amorous adventures)
S: (n) Don Juan (any successful womanizer (after the legendary profligate Spanish nobleman))
S: (n) Lothario (a successful womanizer; a man who behaves selfishly in his sexual relationships with women)
S: (n) wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher (a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women)

S: (n) wonder boy, golden boy (a man who is unusually successful at an early age)
S: (n) young buck, young man (a teenager or a young adult male)
S: (n) Adam ((Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race)
S: (n) Cain ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God)
S: (n) Abel ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain)
S: (n) Seth ((Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel)
S: (n) Ham ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
S: (n) Japheth ((Old Testament) son of Noah)
S: (n) Shem ((Old Testament) eldest son of Noah)

S: (n) man (a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman) "she takes good care of her man"
S: (n) man (an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)) "the army will make a man of you"
S: (n) mother's son (a male person) "every mother's son who could walk was there"
S: (n) sirrah (formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger)

part meronym

S: (n) male body (the body of a male human being)

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
antonym
derivationally related form

W: (adj) male [Related to: male] (characteristic of a man) "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
W: (adj) male [Related to: male] (for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys) "the male lead"; "the male population"

S: (n) Male (the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands)

Adjective

S: (adj) male (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"
S: (adj) male, manful, manlike, manly, virile (characteristic of a man) "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
S: (adj) male (for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys) "the male lead"; "the male population"