Identity

Sexuality

Sexual orientation

Gender

Female

Male

Male

A. adj. I. That belongs to the sex which can beget offspring (contrasted with female); characteristic of or relating to this sex.
1. a. Designating the sex or (formerly) kind which can beget, but not bear, offspring.

c. Of animals, including the human animal (cf. sense 1b).

e. Of the reproductive organs of an animal or plant: characteristic of the males of a species; producing gametes (such as spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova). Also: designating such gametes, which are usually smaller and more motile than the corresponding female gametes.

2. a. Of or relating to a man or men, or to male animals; peculiar to or characteristic of men or male animals.

b. Appropriate or adapted to the use of a man.

B. n.
1. a. A male person; a boy or man. Chiefly in expressed or implied antithesis with female, but also (esp. in Med.) simply as a synonym for man.

b. A male animal (including the human animal). Also fig.

1953 N. TINBERGEN Herring Gull's World xii. 104 Such an aggressive bird is always a male. 1990 A. STEVENS On Jung iv. 54 In virtually all species which procreate by copulation, sperms are introduced into the female, not ova into the male.

male-like a.

1885 N.E.D. s.v. Barren a. and sb., *Male-like, not producing offspring, sterile. 1990 J. BISHOP & M. WALDHOLZ Genome xii. 260 In the other 'male-like' families, the alcohol abuse tended to be the moderate-to-severe Type II alcoholism.