Male
Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual repro ...
, in biology, is the half of a sex system that produces sperm cells.
Male may also refer to:
Gender
* Male, the
gender
Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...
of men and boys
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Man
A man is an adult male human. Before adulthood, a male child or adolescent is referred to as a boy.
Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the f ...
, a male adult
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Boy
A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is usually described as a man.
Definition, etymology, and use
According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy ...
, a young male person, usually a child or adolescent
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Masculinity
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there i ...
, attributes associated with men and boys
Art and entertainment
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''Male'' (film), a 2015 Indian film
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''Male'' (Foetus album), a 1992 live album by Foetus
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''Male'' (Natalie Imbruglia album), a 2015 studio album by Natalie Imbruglia
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Male (band), a German band
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Il Male'', an Italian satirical magazine published in Italy between 1978 and 1982
Places
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Malé
Malé is the capital and most populous city of the Maldives. With a population of 211,908 in 2022 within its administrative area and coterminous geographical area of , Malé is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The city i ...
, the capital of the Maldives
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Malé Island, the island the city is on
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Malé Atoll
Kaafu Atoll is the code name given to an administrative division in the Republic of Maldives which consists of the geographical atolls of Kaashidhoo Island, Gaafaru, North Malé Atoll and South Malé Atoll. As the two Malé Atolls are the main i ...
, the atoll the island is in
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Malé, Italy, a municipality in the province of Trento, Italy
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Małe, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland
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Małe, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in northern Poland
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Mâle, Orne, a village in France
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Male, Belgium, a quarter in Bruges
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Male, Vikramgad, a village in India
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Male (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia
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Male, Mauritania, a town in Mauritania
* Malé, a village and part of
Brtnice in the Czech Republic
People named ''Male''
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Male (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
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Male Rao Holkar (1745–1767), Maharaja of Indore
* The Malês, as in the
Malê revolt
Male, in biology, is the half of a sex system that produces sperm cells.
Male may also refer to:
Gender
* Male, the gender of men and boys
** Man, a male adult
** Boy, a young male person, usually a child or adolescent
** Masculinity, attributes ...
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Male Sa'u (born 1987), Japanese professional rugby union footballer
Other uses
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Masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
, in languages with grammatical gender
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Male connector, in hardware and electronics
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Male language, several languages
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Maale people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia
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Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aerial vehicle
* ''malE'', a bacterial gene encoding
maltose-binding protein
See also
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Female (disambiguation)
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Male and Female (disambiguation)
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Masculine (disambiguation)
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Feminine (disambiguation)
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Mail (disambiguation)
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Mele (disambiguation)
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