{
    "term": "male",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "being a man or boy",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a male friend/colleague/partner"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a male nurse/model/dancer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the participants were male, aged between 25 and 30."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The workforce is **predominantly male**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are three lead male characters in the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Female students asked more questions than their male counterparts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nate Parker was the romantic male lead in the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His only male role model is his school soccer coach, Ben."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stomach cancer was the third most common cause of cancer mortality in the male population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a decrease in the ratio of male to female babies"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["People in society"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "belonging to the sex that does not lay eggs or give birth to babies",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a male bird"
                },
                {
                    "text": "male hormones/fertility/sexuality"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the past, scientists studied male physiology and applied the findings to women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Beautiful male bodies abound in the visual art of the period."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Biology"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["entirely", "exclusively", "largely"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "of men; typical of men; affecting men",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "male attitudes to women"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**traditionally male** interests"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The club is an **exclusively male** preserve."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **male voice choir**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Indigenous male life expectancy is 69 years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had grown up in a very male environment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That was a very male way of dealing with things."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an essentially male Western view of progress"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["People in society"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "producing pollen",
            "labels": "(biology)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Pollen has not been investigated, as male flowers were not available."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "having a part that sticks out that is designed to fit into a hole, socket, etc.",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "male connectors/adapters"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A male connector and a female connector plug into each other."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/meɪl/",
                "audio": "ma/male/male__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/meɪl/",
                "audio": "ma/male/male__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French masle, from Latin masculus, from mas ‘a male’."
}