Definitions for female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Femaleadjective

   1. Not masculine; belonging to a she.

   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.

   2. Female Rhymes. Double rhymes so called, because in French, from which the term is taken, they end in e weak or feminine. These rhymes are female:

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 2 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. female

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EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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. Guinness World Records:

   She joined our celebrated hall of fame with her amazing achievement when she was announced in 2016 as the oldest living female, and was officially confirmed as the last person to be born in the 1800s.

2. Charu Khurana:

   There are now more than 500 female make-up artists practising in Bollywood.

3. Katharine Zaleski:

   About five years into working, they'll see the results of not having stronger female leadership in this country: unequal pay, one of the world's worst parental leave policies and thinning numbers of women at the executive level.

4. Yehuda Elram:

   Its accuracy rate is very high and it has no effect on the hatchability of the female eggs. And it leaves the industry with the seven billion male unincubated eggs as a product rather than waste.

5. Nikki Haley:

   If America was racist, I wouldn’t have been elected the first female minority governor in the country. America is not racist, America is blessed, and America deserves our love, and the reason I’ve been across this country fighting for these candidates is because we need people who love America. We need people who are going to fight for America, we need people who are going to turn this ship around, and I’m telling you this is bigger than an election. On Tuesday, this is when we start to right the ship.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=female
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Female
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=female
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/female
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=female
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=female
9. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=female