英语词汇“female”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	female
释义	fe·male I. \ˈfēˌmāl\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, alteration (influenced by male) of femel, femelle, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French femelle, from Medieval Latin femella, from Latin, young woman, girl, diminutive of femina woman — more at feminine 1. : an individual that bears young or produces eggs as distinguished from one that begets young < the female has to carry an embryo inside her body > as a. : a female animal b. : a woman or girl as distinguished from a man or boy < 74 percent of the employees were females > < when she was a few days old she became … the richest female in France — William Maxwell > 2. : woman < the guide perceived that the females could command their steeds — J.F.Cooper > — now usually used disparagingly < ladies of culture and refinement or coarse common females > < the backbiting of catty females > 3. : a pistillate plant II. adjective Etymology: Middle English, alteration (influenced by male) of femel, femelle, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French femel, femelle, from Medieval Latin femellus, from Latin femella, n. 1. a. : of, by, for, or being the sex that bears young or a member of that sex: as (1) : being a woman or girl or composed of members of the female sex < a female heir > < the female population > : woman < a female pilot > (2) : belonging to, peculiar to, or characteristic of a woman < a female name on the doorplate > < composed for female voices > < female sensitiveness > (3) : engaged in or exercised by women < female tillage of the fields > < female suffrage > b. : exhibiting femaleness < exceptional female behavior by the male bird > specifically : producing or capable of producing eggs < the uterus is a female organ > — symbol ♀ 2. a. : having some quality (as passiveness, gentleness, delicacy of color or sound, highness of pitch) associated with the female sex < the female castanet … gives a delicate sound while the male … with its deeper tone plays the role of accompaniment — F.C.Schang > b. (1) : designed with a hollow into which a corresponding male part fits < the female coupling of a hose > < the female molding of a table hinge > (2) : faced with a character in intaglio < a female stamping die > < a female typefounding matrix > 3. : feminine 4 4. of a dialect or speech form : normally used only by women or by men speaking to women 5. : of, associated with, or being the material, receptive, or productive principle of the cosmos — compare yin Synonyms: feminine, womanly, womanlike, womanish, effeminate, ladylike: female, opposed to male, stresses the fact of sex and usually lacks the rich connotation of various of the others in this set < a female voice > < use of female labor in the mills > < female fashions > < the tender ministries of female hands — Alfred Tennyson > feminine, opposed to masculine, has practically supplanted female in references to what is characteristic of or appropriate to women, especially women's attitudes, qualities, and attributes < the sweet, rich, almost feminine curves of his sensitive mouth — J.C.Powys > < the feminine task of mending a pair of gloves — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < the strangely feminine jealousies and religiousness — John Steinbeck > < the feminine touch of embroidery and lace — New York Times > womanly, opposed to manly and also, from another point of view, to girlish, often describes qualities that befit a woman or make her particularly attractive < yet more womanly was the purity with which she passed through the brutal warriors of an medieval camp — J.R.Green > < a womanly tenderness such as any man might prize at a sanctified hearthside — R.P.Warren > womanlike may be used in reference to faults or foibles ascribed to women < womanlike, taking revenge too deep for a transient wrong — Alfred Tennyson > womanish is often derogatorily used in situations in which manliness might be wanted or expected < womanish entreaties and lamentations — T.B.Macaulay > < the lank and gray-haired, long-nosed, elderly poet whose head leaned with a weak, womanish tilt — H.V.Gregory > 0 effeminate often describes or suggests unmanly softness, delicacy, enervation, or lack of strength < his manner, in spite of his rugged appearance, was oddly effeminate — John Buchan > < he saw in delicate, laborious, discriminating taste, an effeminate pedantry, and would, when the mood was on him, delight in all that seemed healthy, popular, and bustling — W.B.Yeats > In reference to girls and young women ladylike suggests decorous propriety; in references to boys and men it sarcastically suggests daintiness, delicacy, softness, primness, and lack of masculine force and strength < your daughter may be better paid, better dressed, more gently spoken, more ladylike than you were in the old mill — G.B.Shaw > < that ladylike quality which is the curse of southern literature — Margaret Leech >
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