Definition of "feminine"

feminine

/ˈfɛmɪnɪn/

adjective
comparative more feminine, superlative most feminine
1. Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
2. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3. Belonging to females; typically used by females.
4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
  Quotations
  Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  Ninias being esteemed no man of warre at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
  1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], (please specify |book=1 to 5)
5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
  1. (of a noun) Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
  2. (of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
6. (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
noun
plural feminines
1. That which is feminine.
2. (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.
  Quotations
  They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.
  1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […]
3. (grammar) The feminine gender.
4. (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
  Quotations
  The different words belong to different systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another
  1860, Robert Gordon Latham, An Elementary English Grammar: For the Use of Schools

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