Definition of "feminine" in 英语

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the female gender.

2. Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.

3. Belonging to females; typically used by females.

   • Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.

5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

6. (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.

7. (prosody) Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.

   • Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.

noun

1. That which is feminine.

2. (rare, possibly obsolete) A woman.

3. (grammar) The feminine gender.

4. (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.