1 having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of women; connected with women:
That dress makes you look very feminine. * He had delicate, almost feminine, features. * How far do you think the traditional feminine role has changed?
compareFEMALE, MASCULINE
2 (grammar) belonging to a class of words that refer to female people or animals and often have a special form:
Some people prefer not to use the feminine form 'actress' and use the word 'actor' for both sexes.
3 (grammar) (in some languages) belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns or adjectives that have feminine GENDER not MASCULINE or NEUTER:
The French word for 'table' is feminine.
noun (grammar)
1 (the feminine) [sing.] the feminine GENDER (= form of nouns, adjectives and pronouns)
2 [C] a feminine word or word form
compareMASCULINE, NEUTER
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for feminine is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is feminine a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, feminine is tagged as adjective.
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