Synonyms for Female
ˈfi meɪlfe·male

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

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.

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

3. femaleadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   woman, feminine

4. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   socket

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1. female

   We apply female to the sex, feminine to the qualities, especially the finer physical or mental qualities that distinguish the female sex in the human family, or to the objects appropriate for or especially employed by them. A female voice is the voice of a woman; a feminine voice may belong to a man. Womanish denotes the undesirable, womanly the admirable or lovely qualities of woman. Womanly tears would suggest respect and sympathy, womanish tears a touch of contempt. The word effeminate is always used reproachfully, and only of men as possessing womanly traits such as are inconsistent with true manliness.

   See synonyms for MASCULINE.

   Synonyms:
   effeminate, feminine, womanish, womanly

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1. femalenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   female person

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, priapic, staminate, epicene, hermaphroditic, androgynous, gynandromorphic, unisex, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, pseudohermaphroditic, gynandromorphous, hermaphrodite, masculine, young-begetting(a), intersexual, bisexual, antheral

2. female, female personadjective

   a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

   Synonyms:
   female, female person

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, hermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, hermaphrodite, androgynous, antheral, epicene, unisex, gynandromorphic, staminate, young-begetting(a), pseudohermaphroditic, intersexual, masculine, gynandromorphous, bisexual

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"

   Synonyms:
   distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphroditic, hermaphroditic, phallic, pseudohermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), masculine, gynandromorphous, staminate, unisex, bisexual, gynandromorphic, epicene, androgynous, priapic, antheral, hermaphrodite, intersexual

4. female, distaffadjective

   characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

   "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

   Synonyms:
   female, distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, unisex, bisexual, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, pseudohermaphrodite, phallic, masculine, gynandromorphous, antheral, epicene, staminate, androgynous, hermaphrodite, young-begetting(a), intersexual, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic

5. femaleadjective

   for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

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

   Synonyms:
   distaff

   Antonyms:
   male, male person, pseudohermaphrodite, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, gynandromorphic, pseudohermaphroditic, priapic, androgynous, intersexual, gynandromorphous, epicene, staminate, masculine, bisexual, phallic, young-begetting(a), antheral, unisex

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1. • Animal
   • Biology

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1. femaleadjective

   Synonyms:
   feminine, pistillate (Bot.)

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1. List of paraphrases for "female":

   women, females, woman, feminine, mutilation, wife, féminin, girls, girl, femmes, female-dominated

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1. List of known nicknames for "Female":

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   As a Hispanic, female-run business, I am very inspired by her so I thought I’d pay homage.

3. Mike Pence:

   The Bible tells us that God created man in his own imagine, male and female, he created them. And I believe that.

4. Jim Shockey:

   It really took me a while, because when I was young, I didn’t realize that you could be a hunter and be a female. I thought if you were a girl, you couldn’t be classy and feminine, obviously, that’s not true.

5. Albna Hulda Plsdttir:

   Since horses are so hard to sex morphologically unless fairly well-preserved, whole skeletons are found, we know very little about the varying roles of male and female horses in the past.