1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
2. Adjective
Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
3. Noun
A woman.
4. Noun
Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
5. Noun
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
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