- being or relating to to a woman or girl: feminine beauty;feminine dress.
- having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, such as sensitivity or gentleness.
- effeminate; womanish: Growing up, he had been told he had a feminine walk.
- noting or pertaining to that one of the three genders of Latin, Greek, German, etc., or one of the two genders of French, Spanish, Hebrew, etc., having among its members most nouns referring to females, as well as other nouns, as Latin stella “star,” or German Zeit “time.”
- the feminine gender.
- a noun or other element in or marking the feminine gender.
- suitable to or characteristic of a woman
- possessing qualities or characteristics considered typical of or appropriate to a woman
- effeminate; womanish
- grammar
- denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns, occurring in many inflected languages, that includes all kinds of referents as well as some female animate referents
- (as noun)
