The difference between Masculine and Virile
When used as adjectives, masculine means of or pertaining to the male gender, whereas virile means being manly.
Masculine is also noun with the meaning: the masculine gender.
check bellow for the other definitions of Masculine and Virile
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Masculine as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
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Masculine as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
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Masculine as an adjective:
Belonging to males; typically used by males.
Examples:
"“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names."
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Masculine as an adjective:
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
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Masculine as an adjective (grammar):
Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner. Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
Examples:
"The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German."
"German uses the masculine form of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''."
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Masculine as a noun (grammar):
The masculine gender.
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Masculine as a noun (grammar):
A word of the masculine gender.
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Masculine as a noun:
That which is masculine.
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Masculine as a noun (rare, possibly, _, obsolete):
A man.
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Virile as an adjective:
Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
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Virile as an adjective (physiology, of a [[male]]):
Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
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Virile as an adjective (grammar):
Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.