Definitions for female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. femalenoun

   an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

2. female, female personadjective

   a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

3. femaleadjective

   being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

   "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries"

4. female, distaffadjective

   characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

   "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

5. femaleadjective

   for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

   "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

Wiktionary(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. femalenoun

   Someone or something of feminine sex or gender.

   Etymology: From femele, from femella, from femella, diminutive of femina. The English spelling was remodelled under the influence of male, which is not etymologically related. Compare man and woman.

2. femaleadjective

   Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as the one associated with the larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made), which in humans and many other species is the sex which produces eggs.

   Etymology: From femele, from femella, from femella, diminutive of femina. The English spelling was remodelled under the influence of male, which is not etymologically related. Compare man and woman.

3. femaleadjective

   Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

   Etymology: From femele, from femella, from femella, diminutive of femina. The English spelling was remodelled under the influence of male, which is not etymologically related. Compare man and woman.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Femalenoun

   an individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova

   Etymology: [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]

2. Femalenoun

   a plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant

   Etymology: [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]

3. Femaleadjective

   belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male

   Etymology: [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]

4. Femaleadjective

   belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness

   Etymology: [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]

5. Femaleadjective

   having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization

   Etymology: [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Female

   Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Female

   fē′māl, adj. of the sex that produces young: pertaining to females: (bot.) having a pistil or fruit-bearing organ.—n. one of the female sex, a woman.—ns. Femal′ity, Feminal′ity, the female nature.—adj. Fem′inal.—n. Feminē′ity, the quality of being female.—adj. Fem′inine, pertaining to women: tender: womanly: (gram.) the gender denoting females.—adv. Fem′ininely.—ns. Fem′inineness; Feminin′ity, the nature of the female sex.—Female screw, a screw cut upon the inward surface of a cylindrical hole in wood or metal; Feminine rhyme, a rhyme between words that terminate each in an unaccented syllable. [Fr. femelle—L. femella, dim. of femina, a woman.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. female

   An animal or human being that produces ovum at a specific age of maturity and development.

   The female of the family and male of the family are equal.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Female

   designated by "O+" the astronomical sign for Venus: that sex in which the ova are developed. {Scanner's comment: The sign for Venus being an orthogonal cross or plus sign hanging vertically below a circle.}

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Biology

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'female' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1690

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'female' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3409

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'female' in Nouns Frequency: #1094

4. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'female' in Adjectives Frequency: #220

How to pronounce female?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of female in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of female in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of female in a Sentence

1. Daniel Beland:

   He depicted himself as a feminist, as someone who believes in indigenous reconciliation, and then you have two of his top female Cabinet ministers resign, and they are depicting him in a very different light.

2. Stephanie Baric:

   Typically seen in the form of physical or emotional abuse, rape or kidnapping, honor violence also includes harmful practices such as female genital mutilation( FGM) and forced marriage. In extreme cases, murder, in sharp contrast with domestic violence, families and communities often condone honor violence, which makes Honor Violence more difficult to identify and stop.

3. Navy Rear Admiral David Proctor:

   These updates are to reflect that The RNZN make no distinction between male and female members in terms of their personal grooming and appearance.

4. Fujie Masahiro:

   Female politicians in Japan must battle against the commonplace view that politics belongs to men, they also face barriers when it comes to juggling family and political life.

5. Luke Ellis:

   We have concentrated on making sure internal people can meet their potential, introduced a lot of mentoring, ensured that we always consider a female candidate and looked at things that have historically slowed down hiring women.

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