What does female mean?

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ˈfi meɪlfe·male

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

  1. femalenoun

    Someone or something of feminine sex or gender.

  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.

  3. femaleadjective

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

  4. 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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Femaleadjective

    If by a female hand he had foreseen
    He was to die, his wish had rather been
    The lance and double ax of the fair warrior queen. Dryd.

    Th’ excess of heat is but a fable;
    We know the torrid zone is now found habitable. Abraham Cowley.

    The female rhymes are in use with the Italian in every line, with the Spaniard promiscuously, and with the French alternately, as appears from the Alarique, the Pucelle, or any of their later poems. John Dryden, Ann Mirab. Preface to.

  2. FEMALEnoun

    A she; one of the sex which brings young.

    Etymology: femalle, French; femella, Latin.

    God created man in his own image, male and female created he them. Gen. i. 27.

    Man, more divine,
    Lord of the wide world, and wide wat’ry seas,
    Indu’d with intellectual sense and soul,
    Are masters to their females, and their lords. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Female

    Female is a song written by Shane McAnally, Nicolle Galyon, and Ross Copperman and recorded by New Zealand-born Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released in November 2017 as the first single from Urban's 2018 album Graffiti U. Urban debuted the song live on the 51st Annual Country Music Association Awards that same day.

ChatGPT

  1. female

    Female typically refers to the sex or gender of an organism that is characterized by the presence of two X chromosomes, reproductive organs that produce eggs or ova, and secondary sexual characteristics that are associated with femininity. In humans, females are capable of producing offspring through sexual reproduction with males. However, it is important to note that the concept of female can vary across species, and gender identity may also differ from biological sex in some cases.

Webster Dictionary

  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

  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

  3. Femaleadjective

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

  4. Femaleadjective

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

  5. Femaleadjective

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

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

Wikidata

  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

  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

  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

  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.}

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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

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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. Cala Gonone:

    The mother lives in the large pelagic tub with another female specimen. If confirmed by DNA analysis, it would be the world's first documented parthenogenesis documented by Mustelus Mustelus. Ispera, the name chosen for the little one, in Sardinian means hope and a birth in the [COVID-19] era it certainly is.

  2. Jukka Kekäläinen:

    The whole reproductive tract of the female seems to have evolved to filter out' unwanted' spermatozoa, we argue that cryptic female choice can potentially occur in multiple stages during the sperm migration from the vagina towards the unfertilized egg.

  3. Lesley Holroyd:

    I am female, I am biologically female, and it really upsets me... I don't care if [ my surgery ] was cosmetic. I'm glad it was. Because I want to, when I look at my body I want to identify with it as my gender.

  4. Actor Chris Hemsworth:

    The fairytales in the past were predominately the damsel in distress and the female would be rescued by the male or the prince. This time it's the other way around, i think about my daughter and I would love for her to see a film like this, where woman are empowered and in charge of their own destiny and they can lead armies and are warriors and can take over kingdoms and so on. It was exciting.

  5. Andrew Holmes:

    And it’s supposed to have been a female shooter, and my message to her, it won’t be long because I hope one of these cameras or somebody got her information and knows how she looks.

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