1. прилагательное 1) женский, принадлежащий женщине 2) женский, свойственный женщинам; женственный Синоним(ы): female, womanlike 3) женоподобный Синоним(ы): effeminate, female, ladylike, womanish, womanly 4) [лингвистика] женский (род) 5) [литературоведение] женский, с ударением на предпоследнем слоге Антоним(ы): masculine 2. имя существительное 1) [лингвистика] а) [сокращение] f, fem; то же, что и feminine gender - женский род б) слово женского рода Антоним(ы): masculine 2) [шутливое] женщина, фемина
I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French feminin, from Latin femininus, from femina woman; akin to Old English delu nipple, Latin filius son, felix, fetus, and fecundus fruitful, felare to suck, Greek thēlē nipple 1. female 1a(1) 2. characteristic of or appropriate or unique to women Example: feminine beauty Example: a feminine perspective 3. of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to females Example: a feminine noun 4. a. being an unstressed and usually hypermetric final syllable Example: a feminine ending b. of rhyme having an unstressed final syllable c. having the final chord occurring on a weak beat Example: music in feminine cadences • femininely adverb • feminineness noun II. noun 1. a. a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the feminine gender b. the feminine gender 2. the embodiment or conception of a timeless or idealized feminine nature Example: the eternal feminine