| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | Latin femina 'woman' |
1 having qualities that are considered to be typical of women, especially by being gentle, delicate, and pretty :
Dianne loved pretty feminine things.
Dianne loved pretty feminine things.2 relating to being female [= female]:
traditional feminine roles
Amelia's report describes the experience from a feminine point of view.
traditional feminine roles
Amelia's report describes the experience from a feminine point of view.3SLG a feminine noun, pronoun etc belongs to a class of words that have different inflections from masculine or neuter words [↪ masculine]

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