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f.

f. is the abbreviation of feminine.

f. is the abbreviation of figure.

f. is the abbreviation of form.

Meaning of feminine

Noun

feminine (plural feminines)

  1. That which is feminine.
  2. (obsolete, possibly, rare) A woman.
    • They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
  3. The feminine gender.
  4. A word of the feminine gender.
    • These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to dif­fer­ent systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is...1860, Robert Gordon Latham FRS, An Elementary English Grammar: For the Use of Schools, →OCLC, page 82

See all 12 meanings of feminine

Meaning of figure

Noun

figure (plural figures)

  1. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
    • For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516...2004, Joshua Tree National Park 2004 Visitor Study
  2. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
    • a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
  3. A person, thing, or action representative of another
    • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
  4. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
    • He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
  5. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
    • that he may live in figure and indulgence1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
  6. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
    • The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.1919, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health

See all 29 meanings of figure

Adjective (1)

f. (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional) and the following (page, paragraph, etc.)
    • “Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba,” 51. 66. 360 f., 364 f., 3671941, Gershom Gerhard Scholem, “Index”, in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, reprint of third revised edition, published 1995, →ISBN, page 445
    Synonyms:
    et seq.

Adjective (2) capitalized: F.

F. (not comparable)

  1. Fahrenheit.
  2. French.
  3. Federal, in some legal citation formats.

Proper noun capitalized: F.

F.

  1. French.

Adverb capitalized: F.

F. (not comparable)

  1. And the following (page) - used in indexes.

Synonyms of f.

Origin of f.

The "and the following" sense is derived from an abbreviation of Latin foliō (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”).

Words formed from f.

Phrases with f.

4 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about f.

What does f. mean?
F. means and the following (page, paragraph, etc.).
What is f. the abbreviation of?
F. is the abbreviation of feminine.
What part of speech is f.?
F. can be an adjective, a proper noun or an adverb.

Words near f. in the dictionary

  1. f-value
  2. f-word
  3. f-worded
  4. f-wording
  5. f-words
  6. f.
  7. F. A. B.
  8. F. B. O.
  9. F. B. O.s
  10. F. D. R.
  11. F. O.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: f. (page history and authors); F. (page history and authors); feminine (page history and authors); figure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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