female
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.meɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: females
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *fēmanā
Latin fēmina
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin fēmella
Latin fēminader.
Old French femelebor.
Middle English femele
Middle English female
English female
From Middle English female, an alteration of Middle English femele, from Old French femele, femelle (“female”), from Medieval Latin fēmella (“a female”), from Latin fēmella (“a girl, a young female, a young woman”), diminutive of fēmina (“a woman”). The English spelling and pronunciation were remodelled under the influence of male, which is otherwise not etymologically related. Contrast woman, which is etymologically built on man (as in, “person”).
Senses: examples: text: It would be years sometimes ere he saw the face of a female, and when he did, that face would not be overangelic.
ref: 1896, John Brown, Twenty-five Years a Parson in the Wild West, page 57:
text: XY female patients with gonadal dysgenesis are sometimes referred to as “XY sex-reversed” patients or individuals with “XY sex reversal” (Simpson and Martin, 1981). Although widely used, this terminology is somewhat vague as it does not distinguish XY females with gonadal dysgenesis from XY females with androgen resistance.
ref: 2004, Eric Vilain, Edward R.￵nbsp, ￶B. McCabe, “DAX1 and X-Linked Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenita and XY Sex Reversal”, in Charles J. Epstein, Robert P. Erickson, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, editors, Inborn Errors of Development: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Disorders of Morphogenesis, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 508:
glosses: One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
A human of the feminine sex.
hyponyms: word: girl
word: woman
word: frippet
word: grisette
word: hoyden
word: ingenue
word: ladette
word: lolita
word: schoolgirl
word: tomboy
word: beautiful woman
word: gay woman
word: mother
word: old woman
word: promiscuous woman
word: Proverbs woman
word: shrew
word: ugly woman
examples: text: Accumulated data indicate that in all species of sharks, the females grow larger than the males.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
examples: text: During mating, F+ male bacteria transfer the F factor to the recipient females, transforming them into F+ males.
ref: 2001 August 1, Harrison G. Echols, Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
examples: text: These are the most common type, as they join females of the same diameter together. […] For example, you may need an adapter such as a 3-in. pipe thread (a common thread used to join pipes) female to 2 1⁄2 NH male.
ref: 2009, Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II, Fire Engineering Books, →ISBN, page 412:
glosses: A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
Synonyms: word: female
word: menstruator
word: vagina-owner
word: vagina owner
Hyponyms: word: bimbette
word: broad
word: chick
word: dame
word: gal
word: girl
word: lady
word: niggeress
word: niggerette
word: queen
word: shiksa
word: skirt
word: squaw
word: woman
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from female (adjective or noun)
word: all-female
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word: alpha female
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word: antifemale
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word: anti-female
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word: beta female
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word: bio-female
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word: bio female
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word: biofemale
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word: cis-female
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word: cis female
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word: classic female blues
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word: delta female
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word: female alpha
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word: female-assigned
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word: female-centric
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word: female chauvinism
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word: female chauvinist
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word: female circumcision
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word: female condom
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word: female dog
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word: femaledom
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word: female-dominated
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word: female ejaculate
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word: female ejaculation
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word: female gaze
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word: female genital cutting
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word: female genital mutilation
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word: female ginseng
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word: femalehood
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word: female hysteria
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word: female impersonation
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word: female impersonator
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word: femaleist
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word: femaleless
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word: femalelike
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word: femalely
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word: femaleness
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word: female pattern baldness
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word: female prostate
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word: female rhyme
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word: female tank
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word: female-to-male
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word: femalish
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word: femalism
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word: femalist
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word: femalization
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word: femalize
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word: fembot
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word: femcee
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word: femcel
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word: femfan
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word: FemHawke
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word: femismo
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word: femocrat
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word: femoid
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word: Femquisitor
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word: feMRA
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word: femsub
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word: femullet
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word: gamma female
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word: hefemale
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word: heterofemale
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word: interfemale
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word: isofemale
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word: male-to-female
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word: metafemale
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word: multifemale
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word: neofemale
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word: nonfemale
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word: omega female
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word: sensitive female chord progression
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word: shaved female genitalia
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word: superfemale
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word: trans female
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word: transfemale
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word: trans-female
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word: trans-identified female
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word: unfemale
Related terms: word: ♀
word: sex
word: gender
word: gender identity