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feminines

feminines is the plural of feminine.

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

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Questions about feminines

What is feminines the plural of?
Feminines is the plural of feminine.

Words near feminines in the dictionary

  1. feminine rhyme
  2. feminine rhymes
  3. femininely
  4. feminineness
  5. femininenesses
  6. feminines
  7. femininise
  8. femininised
  9. femininises
  10. femininising
  11. femininism

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