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Collocations for male - noun

ADJECTIVE

adult, mature
adolescent, immature, juvenile, young
old
alpha, dominant
the dominant male in the herd
gay, heterosexual, homosexual
red-blooded
African American, black, Caucasian (esp. AmE), white
large, powerful, strong (all biology)
courting, monogamous, unmated (all biology)

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PHRASES

the male of the species
The male of the species has darker feathers.

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Collocations for male - adj.

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

entirely, exclusively
The club is exclusively male.
largely, mainly, mostly, overwhelmingly, predominantly, primarily
The workforce is predominantly male.
very
I had grown up in a very male environment.
That was a very male way of dealing with things.
typically
traditionally
traditionally male interests

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Male is used with these nouns:
anatomy, body, bravado, chauvinism, chauvinist, chorus, colleague, companion, companionship, counterpart, cousin, dancer, deity, doctor, dominance, domination, ego, elephant, employee, employment, equivalent, escort, fantasy, fashion, friend, gender, genitals, goat, heir, homosexual, hormone, identity, impotence, infant, infertility, inmate, kin, lead, lover, lust, member, menopause, model, nurse, occupation, oppression, orgasm, parent, partner, perspective, population, prerogative, prostitute, prostitution, reader, relative, role, servant, sex, sexuality, sibling, soprano, specimen, superiority, supremacy, teacher, trait, twin, vanity, victim, violence, voice, worker, workforce, writer, youth

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