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noun 
  1. (Obsolete or Colloquial): A woman
They guide the feminines toward the palace " Hakluyt
  1. (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 
  1. 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
  1. Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in ease and grace " Macaulay
  1. Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are names.
  1. (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.
Translations: 
  • Italian: femminile(it)
  • Spanish: femenino , femenina
  • German: weiblich, feminin
  • French: féminin
adverb 
  1. Of or pertaining to woman.
  2. 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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