feminine

  1. Adjective.  Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
  2. Adjective.  Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
  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.
  4. Adjective.  (grammar) Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
  5. Adverb.  Of or pertaining to woman.
  6. Adverb.  Having the qualities of a woman.
  7. Noun.  The female principle.
  8. Noun.  (obsolete, or) A woman.
  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.

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