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femenino — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • female noun A person, animal, or plant of the sex or gender that produces eggs or bears offspring.
  • feminine adj Having qualities traditionally associated with women, such as gentleness or delicacy.
  • Gay adj Homosexual; romantically or sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
  • muliebral adj Womanly, feminine, relating to or in the manner of an adult woman.
  • womanly adj Considered typical of, or fitting for, a woman; feminine.
  • Women noun Plural of woman.

Senses

femenino is used for these senses in English:

  • Women (sports) Clipping of women's team (used in club names, as in [Club Name] Women)
  • female Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]
  • feminine Belonging to females; typically used by females.
  • feminine (grammar) The feminine gender.
  • gay (colloquial) Not heterosexual, not allosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
  • muliebral Womanly, feminine, relating to or in the manner of an adult woman.
  • womanly Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.

female — full definition

  1. noun A person, animal, or plant of the sex or gender that produces eggs or bears offspring.
  2. adj Relating to or being female.

feminine — full definition

  1. adj Having qualities traditionally associated with women, such as gentleness or delicacy.
  2. adj Relating to women or the female sex.
  3. adj In grammar, belonging to the gender category that includes words for female beings in languages that mark gender.

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