ADULT MALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adult male mean? 

• ADULT MALE (noun)
  The noun ADULT MALE has 1 sense:

1. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

  Familiarity information: ADULT MALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADULT MALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adult male; man

Context example:

there were two women and six men on the bus

Hypernyms ("adult male" is a kind of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Meronyms (parts of "adult male"):

adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adult male"):

posseman (an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse)

housefather (a man in charge of children in an institution)

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)

graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah; 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)

ponce (a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses)

hunk (a well-built sexually attractive man)

Senhor (a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English 'Mr')

shaver (an adult male who shaves)

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)

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)

father figure; father surrogate (a man who takes over all the functions of the real father)

baboo; babu (used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr')

bachelor; unmarried man (a man who has never been married)

bey ((formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt)

boy (a friendly informal reference to a grown man)

beau; boyfriend; fellow; swain (a man who is the lover of a man or woman)

ex-boyfriend (a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend)

white man (a man who is White)

bruiser; bull; Samson; strapper (a large and strong and heavyset man)

beau; clotheshorse; dandy; dude; fashion plate; fop; gallant; sheik; swell (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)

ejaculator (a man who ejaculates semen)

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)

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)

buster; dude; fellow (an informal form of address for a man)

galoot (a disreputable or clumsy man)

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; sod (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)

Instance hyponyms:

Cain ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God)

Seth ((Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel)

Abel ((Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain)

Shem ((Old Testament) eldest son of Noah)

Japheth; Ham ((Old Testament) son of Noah)

Adam ((Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race)

 Context examples 

The six adult male participants all had IgE antibodies — immune proteins associated with allergy — to alpha-gal in their blood.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

Some older men have levels far below what is normal for a young adult male.

(Hormone treatment studied in older men, NIH)

Incidence is higher among adult males; patients with a history of immunodeficiency are at increased risk.

(Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The average fingertip unit is equal to approximately 0.5 gram for an adult male and 0.4 gram for an adult female.

(Fingertip Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

It predominantly affects adult males.

(Palmar Fibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)