feminine
IPA: fˈɛmʌnʌn
noun
- That which is feminine.
- (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.
- (grammar) The feminine gender.
- (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
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.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
- (of a noun) Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- (of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
- (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
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Examples of "feminine" in Sentences
- The feminine form of the name is Nabila.
- The feminine version is the Spanish Fernanda.
- The feminine form of patriarchy is matriarchy.
- The feminine version of the name is Vladimira.
- It is the feminine form of the name Epiphanius.
- Basically the former is masculine and the latter is feminine.
- This declension is the feminine counterpart of the 'an' declension.
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