beta male
beta male · beta males
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бета
A male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha maleA male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha male.
» Tom is a beta male.
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1 sensesA male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha male.
Examples
1 sentencesTom is a beta male.
Forms
plural: beta males| Singular | beta male |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedomegaverse
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.