3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, a. [L. femininus fr femina woman; prob.
akin to L. fetus, or to Gr qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to
suckle, Skr. dh[=a] to suck; cf AS f[=ae]mme woman, maid:
cf F. f['e]minin. See {Fetus}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic
of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine
ease and grace. --Macaulay.
2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
to the female sex; as in a good sense modest, graceful,
affectionate, confiding; or in a bad sense weak,
nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and
feminine. --Milton.
Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all but
altogether feminine, and subject to ease and
delicacy. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, n.
1. A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
They guide the feminines toward the palace.
--Hakluyt.
2. (Gram.) 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.
There are but few true feminines in English.
--Latham.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
feminine
adj 1: associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
[ant: {masculine}]
2: of grammatical gender [ant: {neuter}, {masculine}]
3: befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature
woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
[syn: {womanly}] [ant: {unwomanly}]
4: (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
"a feminine ending"
n : a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to
females or to objects classified as female
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