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Definition of Feminine

1. Noun. A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female.

2. Adjective. Associated with women and not with men. "Feminine intuition"

3. Adjective. Of grammatical gender.

4. Adjective. Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman. "Womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"

5. Adjective. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable. "A feminine ending"

Definition of Feminine

1. a. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

2. n. A woman.

Definition of Feminine

1. Adjective. Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly. ¹

2. Adjective. Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females. ¹

3. Adjective. Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive. ¹

4. Adjective. (grammar) Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender. ¹

5. Adverb. Of or pertaining to woman. ¹

6. Adverb. Having the qualities of a woman. ¹

7. Noun. The female principle ¹

8. Noun. (obsolete or colloquial) A woman. ¹

9. Noun. (grammar) Any one of those words which are the appellations of '''females''', or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feminine

1. a word or form having feminine gender [n -S]

Medical Definition of Feminine

1. 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. "Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace." (Macaulay) 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. "Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine." (Milton) "Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy." (Sir W. Raleigh) Origin: L. Femininus, fr. Femina woman; prob. Akin to L. Fetus, or to Gr. To suck, to suckle, Skr. Dha to suck; cf. AS. Famme woman, maid: cf. F. Feminin. See Foetus. 1. A woman. "They guide the feminines toward the palace." (Hakluyt) 2. Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. "There are but few true feminines in English." (Latham) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feminine

femicides femifascist femifascists feminacentric feminacies feminacy feminal feminalities feminality feminate

feminazi feminazis femineity feminicity feminie feminine rhyme feminine rhymes femininely feminineness femininenesses

feminines femininities femininize femininized femininizes femininizing

Literary usage of Feminine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"The inflection of these nouns is more simple than that of masculines (§92, 5), the addition of the feminine ending having already occasioned as much ..."

2. A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, in Devanâgarî and Roman Letters Throughout by Friedrich Max Müller (1870)
"In the declension of nouns with changeable bases, the more important feminine and neuter forms were separately mentioned ; and in the declension of nouns ..."

3. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"With regard to the nominative singular of feminine bases ending in derivative d, the question arose, •whether words like lona in Latin, ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"'The English Muse,' in all its 352 lines, contains only one set of feminine endings, and that is doubtful.* 14. 'The Fox set to watch the geese: a ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"We could hardly expect such delineations of the fair feminine qualities as could be given by feminine novelists alone. We could not ask him for a Jane Eyre, ..."

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