{
    "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’."
}