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Look up: feminine

  1. feminine
    [Adjective] Womanly. Features that are like those of a woman.
    Example: My tomboy sister looked so feminine in her pretty wedding dress.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. feminine
    [adj] - (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable 2. [adj] - of grammatical gender 3. [adj] - associated with women and not with men 4. [n] - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Feminine
    Fem'i·nine adjective [ Latin femininus , from femina woman; probably akin to Latin fetus , or to Greek qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Sanskrit dhā to suck; confer Anglo-Saxon fǣmm...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/18

  4. Feminine
    Fem'i·nine noun 1. A woman. [ Obsolete 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 te...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/18

  5. feminine
    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, affection...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. feminine
    adjective (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; `a feminine ending`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. feminine
    noun a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. feminine
    (fem´ĭ-nin) pertaining to the female sex, or having qualities normally characteristic of the female.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  9. Feminine
    • (n.) 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. • (a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. • (n.) A woman. &...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. feminine
    feminine 1. Of persons or animals: belonging to the female sex; female. 2. Characteristic of, peculiar, or proper to women; womanlike, womanly. 3. In the same sense, of objects to which sex is attributed, or which have feminine names; especially, one of the heavenly bodies. 4. Of or pertaining to ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  11. feminine
    see Rhyme.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r



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