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{
"term": "feminine",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having the qualities or appearance considered to be typical of women; connected with women",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I feel very feminine when I wear a dress."
},
{
"text": "He had delicate, almost feminine, features."
},
{
"text": "the traditional feminine role"
},
{
"text": "I don't usually feel feminine."
},
{
"text": "Her name fits in with a traditionally feminine image."
},
{
"text": "She looked very feminine with her hair like that."
},
{
"text": "stereotypically feminine qualities like compassion"
}
],
"topics": ["People in society"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "belonging to a class of words that refer to female people or animals and often have a special form",
"labels": "(grammar)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some people prefer not to use the feminine form ‘actress’ and use the word ‘actor’ for both sexes."
}
],
"topics": ["Language"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns or adjectives that have feminine gender, not masculine or neuter",
"labels": "(grammar)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The French word for ‘table’ is feminine."
}
],
"topics": ["Language"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfemənɪn/",
"audio": "fe/feminine/feminine__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfemənɪn/",
"audio": "fe/feminine/feminine__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin femininus, from femina ‘woman’."
}