Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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feminine | Yes | Yes | No | No |
grammatical gender | Yes | No | No | No |
feminine (noun) | grammatical gender (noun) |
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a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | 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 |
feminine (adjective) | grammatical gender (adjective) |
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associated with women and not with men | |
female (of grammatical gender) | |
befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | |
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable |