feminine
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈfɛmɪnɪn/
- Specialized
:
femenino
- It presented a new worldview which saw all material reality as animated by Shakti, divine feminine power.
- feminine noun
- feminine gender
- masculine and feminine
It's rather this isn't acting which gets inflected as masculine or feminine.
- It's rather this isn't acting which gets inflected as masculine or feminine.
- And maybe chicken is like a is a masculine noun and road is a feminine noun and it has to know what it's about, right?
- Put it is the feminine adjective meaning someone who's small.
Examples
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Choh used the feminine noun to encompass the genetically neuter Zowi as a linguistic convenience.
Fiction book (2000) -
Each photo depicted a male or female child wearing masculine, feminine, or neutral clothing.
Academic text (2015) -
The feminine care aisle, not makeup aisle.
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There is a marble angel above the tomb, feminine, with a tiny cherub angel in her arms.
Fiction book (1994) -
Dombey finds himself excluded from this feminine sphere within his house.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's very feminine, OK, because there's so much red that's also looking on the pink side.
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As unemployment rose during the Depression, "feminine" professions such as teaching increasingly attracted men.
Fiction book (1993) -
The lack of plot and the non-teleological nature of diaries are seen as feminine features.
Academic text (1999) -
Russell, a quick glint of panic, a gentle peal of feminine laughter.
Fiction book (1997) -
The word 'girl' is a feminine noun that denotes a female child.
Antonyms
How Masculine
Surface Forms
Morphology
feminine = female (transparent) = femin + ine
The grammatical sense is a direct extension of the adjectival sense 'relating to women', so the morphological relation is clear.
Etymology
Feminine comes from Latin femina 'woman' and the same root is in female, so in grammar a 'feminine' word belongs to the group that is marked as 'female' (for example, the article 'la' in French). This is why languages call one class of nouns 'feminine'.