as in feminine
of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women
the composer's new music calls for female voices
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as in lady
an adult female human being
researchers are looking for females aged 50 to 70 to take part in the study
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Recent Examples of female
Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Your interaction with a female companion will be especially meaningful to you.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 June 2025
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Nine juvenile males and two juvenile females were arrested on various charges including third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace and interfering with an officer.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2025
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Adjective
This experimental essay interweaves three stories: a female director reconstructing the life of a dead transgender woman through film; an intimate study of the filmmaker’s family, who also dealt with a missing relative; and the testimony of forensic pathologist Karen Quintero.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Your interaction with a female companion will be especially meaningful to you.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 1 June 2025
Noun
Levels of circulating testosterone will then exceed that of females of any age by 15-fold, research shows.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Nine juvenile males and two juvenile females were arrested on various charges including third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace and interfering with an officer.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for female
Adjective
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Throughout Fort Worth, streets with feminine monikers are rumored to be named for builders’ girlfriends and paramours.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 June 2025
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It’s set in an empty warehouse loft, with light shooting through propeller fans (very Adrian Lyne), and with Miley, in her primal assertion of feminine dominion, joined by Naomi Campbell, the two of them obliterating the need for anyone else.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 June 2025
Noun
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American Love Story will focus on the whirlwind romance between JFK Jr. — son of President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy — and Bessette, a fashion publicist.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
13 June 2025
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Hundreds of unneeded hallway lockers hide behind decorative paper and student posters of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former first lady Michelle Obama, whose father attended in the 1950s.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
13 June 2025
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One of those fans, apparently, is singer Ciara, who recently urged the Harlem artist to make Lampkin an honest women after running into the rapper in the BET Awards press room this weekend.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
9 June 2025
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Sally was Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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“Female.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/female. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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