feminine
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
- Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
- Belonging to females; typically used by females.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
- Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions: Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions: Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
- Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
- Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
Noun
- That which is feminine.
- A woman.
- The feminine gender.
- A word of the feminine gender.
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