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feme

feme noun: a woman.

Noun (1)

feme (plural femes)

  1. (historical) A woman.
    • TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME.
    • There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp. 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same if her baron would murder her. And the...1825, Henry Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe, Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack

Noun (2) capitalized: FEME

FEME (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of familial essential myoclonus and epilepsy.

Forms of feme

pluralfemes

Origin of feme

From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”), from Old French femme, from Latin fēmina. Doublet of femina, femme, and hembra.

Words formed from feme

Questions about feme

What does feme mean?
Feme means a woman.
What part of speech is feme?
Feme is a noun.
What is the plural of feme?
The plural of feme is femes.

Words near feme in the dictionary

  1. femdicks
  2. femdom
  3. femdomme
  4. femdommes
  5. femdoms
  6. feme
  7. feme covert
  8. feme sole
  9. femenby
  10. femenine
  11. femerall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feme (page history and authors); FEME (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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