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Antonyms for feminines

Grammar : Noun, adjective
Spell : fem-uh-nin
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛm ə nɪn

Definition of feminines

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "of the female sex," from Old French femenin (12c.) "feminine, female; with feminine qualities, effeminate," from Latin femininus "feminine" (in the grammatical sense at first), from femina "woman, female," literally "she who suckles," from root of felare "to suck, suckle" (see fecund). Sense of "woman-like, proper to or characteristic of women" is recorded from mid-15c.
  • The interplay of meanings now represented in female, feminine, and effeminate, and the attempt to make them clear and separate, has led to many coinages: feminitude (1878); feminile "feminine" (1640s); feminility "womanliness" (1838); femality (17c., "effeminacy;" 1754 "female nature"). Also feminality (1640s, "quality or state of being female"), from rare adjective feminal (late 14c.), from Old French feminal. And femineity "quality or state of being feminine," from Latin femineus "of a woman, pertaining to a woman."
  • noun, adjective womanly
Example sentences :
  • Do you not know that European feminines in all ranks of society—alack, even in our own!
  • Extract from : « Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. » by F. Anstey
  • There are no feminines or diminutives of those words, my dear.
  • Extract from : « Life at High Tide » by Various
  • It really seemed as if she was fitting out an army of feminines.
  • Extract from : « Phemie Frost's Experiences » by Ann S. Stephens
  • In Welsh—initials of feminines become light after the Articles.
  • Extract from : « The English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • Is it my fault that feminines overwhelm me with unsought affections?
  • Extract from : « A Bayard From Bengal » by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee
  • The n-Declension includes (a) masculines, (b) feminines, and (c) neuters.
  • Extract from : « Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book » by C. Alphonso Smith
  • The Nouns themselves (to whatever class they may belong) are either masculines, feminines, or intermediates (neuter).
  • Extract from : « The Poetics » by Aristotle
  • All ending in the invariably long vowels, H and O, and in A among the vowels that may be long, are feminines.
  • Extract from : « The Poetics » by Aristotle
  • It is an open gate through which feminines slide into a habit of gambling.
  • Extract from : « Phemie Frost's Experiences » by Ann S. Stephens
  • Some of these feminines, however, have a method of retaliation which happily does not exist further north.
  • Extract from : « The Andes and the Amazon » by James Orton

Synonyms for feminines

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