lesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛz.bɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɛz.bi.ən/
Forms: form: lesbians
form: le$bian
form: le dollar bean
form: les🫘
Etymology: From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.
Senses: examples: text: There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.
ref: 1904, Jacobus X, Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-pathology, volume 1, page 2:
text: Another Spanish-speaking respondent said that she does not identify as a lesbian because that is a term for women who like women, and as she does not like women, and so she cannot be a lesbian.
ref: 2020, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Fábio Rafael Augusto, Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sensitive Topics with Populations Considered Vulnerable, page 91:
synonyms: word: beanflicker
word: bulldiker
word: bulldyker
word: carpet muncher
word: chemise lifter
word: clam smacker
word: clitorist
word: crack snacker
word: donut bumper
word: dyke
word: flat cracker
word: gayelle
word: gap-lapper
word: gynecophile
word: kamp
raw_tags: in Maori communities
word: lesbian
word: lesbianist
word: lesbo
word: lezzer
word: lezzie
word: lezzo
word: lizzie
word: palone-omi
word: rug muncher
word: Sapphic
word: sapphist
word: scissor sister
word: todger dodger
word: tribade
word: tribadist
word: tribady
word: vagitarian
glosses: A homosexual woman, one who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
examples: text: There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).
ref: 1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve, New York: Morrow:
text: The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]
ref: 2014, George H Harrison, Birds Do It, Too: The Amazing Sex Life of Birds, Willow Creek Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”).
Coordinate terms: gay man
Derived terms: antilesbian
celesbian
chapstick lesbian
cislesbian
cis lesbian
ex-lesbian
glam lesbian
gold star lesbian
hasbian
husbian
I'm a lesbian
I'm lesbian
Lesbaru
lesbean
lesbianate
lesbian bed death
lesbian chic
lesbian dance theory
lesbiandom
lesbianhood
lesbianically
lesbianic
lesbianoid
lesbianish
lesbionic
lesbianism
lesbianist
lesbianistic
lesbianity
lesbianization
lesbianisation
lesbianize
lesbianise
lesbianlike
lesbian lizard
lesbianly
lesbianness
lesbian rule
lesbianship
lesbian until graduation
lesbiany
lesbie
lessie
lezzie
lesbo
lezbo
lezzo
lezzer
lesbiflexible
lesbigay
lesbigaytrans
lesbi
lesby
lesbophobia
lesbiphobia
les
lez
lezbro
LGBT
lipstick lesbian
luppie
nonlesbian
political lesbian
pseudo-lesbian
transbian
trans lesbian
trans-lesbian
translesbian
U-Haul lesbian
useless lesbian
wasbian
Related terms: beaver eater
cuntlapper
cunt-lapper