feminine

Of or pertaining to the female gender.

Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.

Belonging to females; typically used by females.

Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.

Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.

Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.

Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

That which is feminine.

A woman.

They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.

The feminine gender.

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 the vocative case of cat.