Adjective

(en adjective)

(notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

(comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

* 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’]'', ''Business World'', ''[[w:The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal] ,

Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.

Adjective

(-)

Belonging to the sex which typically has testes, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XY chromosomes.

* 1969 , Human afflictions and chromosomal aberrations , page 245:

On the one hand, the observation of Shah et al''. (1961) of male pseudohermaphroditism with XX karyotype and intra-abdominal testicles. Only the skin was studied so that a possibility of mosaicism cannot be dismissed. Two other XX male subjects (Court Brown ''et al. , 1964) raise a similar problem.

* 1995 , Nancy Condee, Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-century Russia , page 113:

The masked woman's lips do not move, but her voice is heard again, "And then, awakened by a daring kiss..."

Behind the mask[,] the woman's eyes flicker open as a male voice is heard off-screen,

Belonging to the masculine (social) gender.

Pertaining to or associated with men, or male animals; masculine.

* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page 289:

In the powder rooms of the world's great hotels[,] when male lesbians meet they show each other their wedding rings and burst out laughing.

* 2009 December 11, The Guardian :

"While No Doubt are avid fans of the Rolling Stones and even have performed in concerts with them, the Character Manipulation Feature results in an unauthorised performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes," the band's lawyers alleged.

(biology) Inherently characteristic of the male of a species.

* 2009 September 11, The Guardian :

"It's very complex area," said Bowen-Simpkins, a consultant gynaecologist. "The male hormone is what gives bulk to muscles and bones so they are at an advantage."

(grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.

* 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:

The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.

(figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a "female" counterpart, as in a connector or pipe fitting.