(January 30, 2013 at 6:05 pm)John V Wrote:(January 30, 2013 at 4:38 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Gender: the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).The request was for definitions of masculine and feminine, not gender.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masculine
Masculine:
1
a : male
b : having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man
2
: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males <masculine nouns>
3
a : having or occurring in a stressed final syllable <masculine rhyme>
b : having the final chord occurring on a strong beat <masculine cadence>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminine
Feminine:
1
: female 1a(1)
2
: characteristic of or appropriate or unique to women <feminine beauty> <a feminine perspective>
3
: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to females <a feminine noun>
4
a : being an unstressed and usually hypermetric final syllable <a feminine ending>
b of rhyme : having an unstressed final syllable
c : having the final chord occurring on a weak beat <music in feminine cadences>
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