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male person

/meɪl ˌpʌrsn/
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Other forms: male persons

Definitions of male person
  1. noun
    a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
    synonyms: male
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    boy wonder
    an extremely talented young male person
    blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad
    a boy or man
    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
    macho
    a male exhibiting or characterized by machismo
    boy, male child
    a youthful male person
    male offspring, man-child
    a child who is male
    adult male, man
    an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
    man
    a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
    man
    an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
    mother's son
    a male person
    sirrah
    formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger
    Black man
    a man who is Black
    white man
    a man who is White
    altar boy
    a boy serving as an acolyte
    baboo, babu
    used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
    bachelor, unmarried man
    a man who has never been married
    ball boy
    a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players
    bat boy
    (baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment
    bey
    (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt
    boy
    a friendly informal reference to a grown man
    cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy
    a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
    beau, boyfriend, fellow, swain, young man
    a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
    ex-boyfriend
    a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend
    Samson, bruiser, bull, strapper
    a large and strong and heavyset man
    catamite
    a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man
    beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell
    a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
    dog
    informal term for a man
    Esq, Esquire
    a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
    castrate, eunuch
    a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
    farm boy
    a boy who has grown up on a farm
    father figure, father surrogate
    a man who takes over all the functions of the real father
    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
    Fauntleroy, Little Lord Fauntleroy
    an excessively polite and well-dressed boy
    buster, dude, fellow
    an informal form of address for a man
    galoot
    a disreputable or clumsy person
    geezer
    a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric
    gentleman
    a man of refinement
    divorced man, grass widower
    a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife
    bozo, cat, guy, hombre
    an informal term for a youth or man
    Herr
    a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English
    Hooray Henry
    a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man
    housefather
    a man in charge of children in an institution
    hunk
    a well-built, attractive man
    ex, ex-husband
    a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
    inamorato
    a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship
    iron man, ironman
    a strong man of exceptional physical endurance
    ironside
    a man of great strength or bravery
    adonis
    any handsome young man
    middle-aged man
    a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old
    Monsieur
    used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
    old boy, old man
    a familiar term of address for a man
    Methuselah, graybeard, greybeard, old man
    a man who is very old
    paterfamilias, patriarch
    the male head of family or tribe
    Peter Pan
    a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up
    ploughboy, plowboy
    a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
    ponce
    a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses
    posseman
    an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse
    schoolboy
    a boy attending school
    Scout
    a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
    Senhor
    a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'
    shaver
    an adult male who shaves
    shop boy
    a young male shop assistant
    signior, signor
    used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
    signore
    an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
    sir
    term of address for a man
    boy, son
    a male human offspring
    stiff
    an ordinary man
    he-man, macho-man, stud
    a man who is virile and sexually active
    Tarzan
    (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)
    widower, widowman
    a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
    philanderer, womaniser, womanizer
    a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
    golden boy, wonder boy
    a man who is unusually successful at an early age
    young buck, young man
    a teenager or a young adult male
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