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Word: feminine (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

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

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Adverb:

  • Having the qualities of a woman.
  • Of or pertaining to woman.

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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.
  • ''(Obsolete or Colloquial):'' A woman.
  • The female principle

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