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female

[fee-meyl] / ˈfi meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
having the qualities or characteristics of a woman
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
of the sex that produces offspring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
childbearing offspring-bearing


Example Sentences

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There is a touch of the smash hit K-pop Demon Hunters in Esther Park's The Legend of Lady Byeoksa - a tale of a cross-dressing female demon-slayer's doomed love in the Joseon era.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Gamble is not the first female to coach varsity football at Hawthorne.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

The way I wrote it, I had her crouching over the pitcher and Anna Moench, as the main female writer on the show, was like, “Sonny, I don’t think you know this works.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

“Every deal should be conditioned,” Berta Soler, heroic leader of the Ladies in White, an organization of female relatives of political prisoners, told me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

During the war, he had ferried hundreds of men, and the occasional female spy, across the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson