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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say female in sign language?

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. Ivanka Trump:

   I don’t think too much about the role of being a female in terms of my own company, i just look at it as growing and learning.

2. Marc Maron:

   The real problem is that female comics have been hearing about this stuff or a while, and there was no place where they could go with that information, so, when it comes to believing women, I want to believe women, but in this particular instance, there was no one named in that story. There was no place for women to go tell this story. There were no women attached to it. I did n’t know their names until Friday … So I believed my friend.

3. Kutter Callaway:

   It forces the viewer to be driven and oriented by gritty, on-the-ground female concerns, there's a pervasive threat of violence that even now is always in play. It's a very different message from most films about Jesus, but it is also really important for today, when we are having conversations in the religious community and more broadly about how women are treated.

4. Gill Rosenberg:

   I saw they (the Kurdish militia) had female fighters, fighting right alongside the men, treated as equals and I thought, 'Why not me, I know I can help,'.

5. Mia Bloom:

   It's certainly ISIS' first female suicide bomber.

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