feminine

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

2. a. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A woman. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. adj. associated with women and not with men Source: wordnet

6. adj. female (of grammatical gender) Source: wordnet

7. adj. befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman Source: wordnet

8. adj. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable Source: wordnet

9. n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female Source: wordnet

10. 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. 1. A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.] They guide the feminines toward the palace. Hakluyt. 2. (Gram.) 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: webster

11. 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: adambom

12. j:97/n:3 n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female a. associated with women and not with men a. of grammatical gender s. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable Source: ecdict

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