FEMININE
\fˈɛmənˌɪn], \fˈɛmənˌɪn], \f_ˈɛ_m_ə_n_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of FEMININE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
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associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
By Princeton University
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a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
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associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to, or like, women; delicate; tender; sensitive; wanting in manly traits; effeminate; in grammar, the gender to which females belong.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to women, or to females; tender; effeminate. Feminine gender, that gender which denotes the female sex.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Of the sex that brings young, female; soft, tender, delicate; effeminate, emasculated.
By Thomas Sheridan
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