masculine ending

American  

noun

1. a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.

2. a stressed syllable that ends a line of verse.

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masculine ending British  

noun

1. prosody a stressed syllable at the end of a line of verse Compare feminine ending

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Example Sentences

It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to males and females in one group.

From Washington Times

It defaults to the masculine ending when referencing a noun related to both males and females in one group.

From Washington Times

But this might be an exceptional case, for I doubt not that many a child in England, and possibly even boys, with an unwonted masculine ending, might be called after the noble woman who freed her people from the tax— "And made herself an everlasting name."

From Project Gutenberg

A line has a masculine ending when its last syllable is stressed; when it ends, for example, on words or phrases like behold', control', no more', begone'.

From Project Gutenberg

Marriage of Figaro, 111. masculine ending, 57.

From Project Gutenberg