What does female mean in English? Meaning of female definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "female": an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
Noun
Meaning: an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)Synonyms: femaleHyponyms: dam
female mammal
filly
henHypernyms: animal
animate being
beast
brute
creature
faunaAntonyms: maleMeaning of "female": being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
Adjective
Meaning: being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring developExample: a female heir
female holly trees bear the berriesSynonyms: femaleAntonyms: androgynous
maleSimilar: egg-producing
female
pistillate
young-bearingAlso see: feminineMeaning of "female": a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
Noun
Meaning: a person who belongs to the sex that can have babiesSynonyms: female
female personHyponyms: adult female
female child
female offspring
foster sister
foster-sister
girl
girl wonder
little girl
womanHypernyms: individual
mortal
person
somebody
someone
soulPart Holonyms: female bodyAntonyms: male
male personMeaning of "female": characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
Adjective
Meaning: characteristic of or peculiar to a womanExample: female sensitiveness
female suffrageSynonyms: distaff
femaleSimilar: feminineMeaning of "female": for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
Adjective
Meaning: for or pertaining to or composed of women or girlsExample: the female lead in the play
a female chorusSynonyms: femaleSimilar: femaleAdjective: Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made). 1987, Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia, page 350: A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'1987, Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia, page 350: A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.(grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender. 2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43: The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43: The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.Synonyms:
feminine, effeminate, fecund, fertile, maternal, womanish, womanly, muliebrous, girl, mother, madam, sister, daughter, matron, lady, grandmother, gal, gentlewoman, femme, she, miss, Ms, mrs,
Antonyms:
male, masculine, male, man,
