feminine
nouns
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
is a type of (narrower)
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
adjectives
associated with women and not with men
"feminine intuition"
is similar to
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
"female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
is similar to
used of competitive activities in which only women take part
"powder-puff baseball"; "a powder-puff football game"
see also
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
"a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"
of grammatical gender
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman
"womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
is derived from
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
"a feminine ending"
domain category
an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
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