feminine
- Adjective. Of the female sex; biologically female, not male, womanly.
- Adjective. Belonging to females; appropriated to, or used by, females.
- Adjective. Having the qualities associated with a woman or the female gender; suitable to, or characteristic of, a woman; nurturing; not masculine or aggressive.
- Adjective. (grammar) Grammatical gender distinction in languages that describes nouns including those pertaining to females and objects that are assigned the feminine gender.
- Adverb. Of or pertaining to woman.
- Adverb. Having the qualities of a woman.
- Noun. The female principle.
- Noun. (obsolete, or) A woman.
- 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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