male vs person

male and person both are nouns.

male is an adjective but person is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
male	Yes	Yes	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, person is a hypernym of male; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than male:

male: a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of male include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

male (noun)	person (noun)
an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies	a human body (usually including the clothing)
	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

male (adjective)	person (adjective)
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
characteristic of a man

Difference between male and person

Words related to "person"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.