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ALL meanings of feminine

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  • adjective feminine pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress. 1
  • adjective feminine having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, as sensitivity or gentleness. 1
  • adjective feminine effeminate; womanish: a man with a feminine walk. 1
  • adjective feminine belonging to the female sex; female: feminine staff members. 1
  • adjective feminine Grammar. noting or pertaining to that one of the three genders of Latin, Greek, German, etc., or one of the two genders of French, Spanish, Hebrew, etc., having among its members most nouns referring to females, as well as other nouns, as Latin stella “star,” or German Zeit “time.”. 1
  • noun feminine the feminine gender. 1
  • noun feminine a noun or other element in or marking that gender. 1
  • noun feminine Having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness. 1
  • adjective feminine womanly 1
  • abbreviation FEMININE female 1
  • adjective feminine grammar: of feminine gender 1
  • noun feminine grammar 1
  • noun feminine That which is feminine. 0
  • noun feminine (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman. 0
  • noun feminine (grammar) The feminine gender. 0
  • noun feminine (grammar) A word of the feminine gender. 0
  • adjective feminine Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly. 0
  • adjective feminine Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male. 0
  • adjective feminine Belonging to females; typically used by females. 0
  • adjective feminine Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive. 0
  • adjective feminine (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. 0
  • adjective feminine Feminine qualities and things relate to or are considered typical of women, in contrast to men. 0
  • adjective feminine Someone or something that is feminine has qualities that are considered typical of women, especially being pretty or gentle. 0
  • adjective feminine In some languages, a feminine noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a masculine or neuter one, or behaves in a different way. 0
  • adjective feminine suitable to or characteristic of a woman 0
  • adjective feminine possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a woman 0
  • adjective feminine effeminate; womanish 0
  • adjective feminine denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some female animate referents 0
  • adjective feminine (as noun) 0
  • adjective feminine female; of women or girls 0
  • adjective feminine having qualities regarded as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, or modesty 0
  • adjective feminine suitable to or characteristic of a woman; womanly 0
  • adjective feminine designating, of, or belonging to the gender of words denoting, or referring to, females as well as many other words to which no distinction of sex is attributed 0
  • adjective feminine designating or of a cadence ending on an unaccented note or chord 0
  • adjective feminine ending with an unstressed syllable, as a line of verse 0
  • adjective feminine designating or of a rhyme in which the rhyming elements have two, or sometimes three, syllables of which only the first is stressed (Ex.: danger, stranger) 0
  • noun feminine the feminine gender 0
  • noun feminine a word or form in this gender 0
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