Meaning of feminine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to the female gender
2. That which is feminine.
3. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male
4. A woman.
   obsolete, possibly, rare
5. Belonging to females; typically used by females
6. The feminine gender.
7. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly
8. A word of the feminine gender.
9. Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions

Equivalents

Examples

“They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.”

“These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to dif­fer­ent systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.”

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