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noun
- (Obsolete or Colloquial): A woman
- They guide the feminines toward the palace " Hakluyt
- (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.
- There are but few true feminines in English " Latham
adjective
- Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.
- Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and " Milton
- Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether , and subject to ease and delicacy " Sir Walter Raleigh
- Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
- Her letters are remarkably deficient in ease and grace " Macaulay
- Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
- Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are names.
- (grammar) grammatical gender distinction in languages that have it such as Spanish and Hindi that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
adverb
- Of or pertaining to woman.
- Having the qualities of a woman.
Etymology: From féminin, feminin, from femininus, from femina woman; probably akin to Latin fetus, or to Greek to suck, to suckle, Sanskrit dhÄ to suck; compare Anglo-Saxon (IPAchar, fmme) woman, maid: compare French féminin. See fetus.
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