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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Recent Examples of female
Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Cristobal and Marquis both smoothly convey the taboos of intimate female relationships in a period-style framework.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
Viewing these very famous periods of Bay Area history from individual female and usually working-class perspectives has given me a completely different idea of Bay Area history.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
In her experiment, McPherson and colleagues created a set-up holding human, mice and pig sperm cells in one part of the compartment and egg cells in the other, divided by a thin channel simulating the female reproductive tract.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Cristobal and Marquis both smoothly convey the taboos of intimate female relationships in a period-style framework.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
Among respondents, 50% identified as male and 48% as female, with an average age of 45.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 27 Mar. 2026
Viewing these very famous periods of Bay Area history from individual female and usually working-class perspectives has given me a completely different idea of Bay Area history.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for female
Adjective
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The brands are calling it not a collaboration but a conversation between the masculine and feminine.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
24 Mar. 2026
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In November, Edgewell Personal Care sold its feminine care business to a company in Sweden for $340 million.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The lady Rams brought home the CIF girls soccer championship title for the first time since the school's 1982 inaugural season.—
Rina Nakano,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The lady writing to you is almost 100 years old.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the 19th, Grace Panetta studied the answers in another Navigator focus group, from young women worried about economic ups and downs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The volunteers included a divinity student on spring break and a woman with a long gray braid who told me that some of the defendants had helped out at her community garden.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Female.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/female. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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