Femme vs Feminine - What's the difference?
femme | feminine |
(archaic, rare) A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
* 1885 , Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
(slang, LGBT) A feminine lesbian, especially one who is attracted to masculine (butch) lesbians.
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Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
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(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
That which is feminine.
A woman.
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(grammar) The feminine gender.
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
* Latham:
As a noun femme
is (archaic|rare) a woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.As an adjective feminine is
.femme
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee."
feminine
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
- Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
- Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
- Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
Synonyms
* (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturingAntonyms
* (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuterDerived terms
* femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminizeNoun
(en noun)- They guide the feminines toward the palace.
- There are but few true feminines in English.
