Definitions for feminines

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feminines fem·i·nine

Spelling: [fem-uh-nin]

IPA: /ˈfɛm ə nɪn/

Feminines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in feminines (eefiimnns).

Definitions for feminines

noun

1. the feminine gender.
2. a noun or other element in or marking that gender.

adjective

1. pertaining to a woman or girl:
2. having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, as sensitivity or gentleness.
3. effeminate; womanish:
4. belonging to the female sex; female:
5. Grammar. 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.”.

Origin of feminines

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French: feminine of feminin fēminīnus, equivalent to fēmin(a) woman (see fetus) + -īnus -ine

Examples for feminines

Betty Friedan put the feelings of our mothers to words, publishing The feminine Mystique.

Simple Alleyne opened his eyes at this little spurt of feminine bitterness.

His own nature partook of the feminine, and he shared its intuitions and its fears.

These crimes of fashion proved the men were feminine and thus gay and therefore worthy of incarceration.

Did she have a heart, then, or was it a feminine trait to turn pale in every emergency?

But dancing was the only feminine accomplishment with which she had any acquaintance.

All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.

“I had this feminine, classical image [of myself] that would have totally been destroyed,” she said.

"'Tis nothing," she answered, refusing his support with feminine reserve.

In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine.