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How to pronounce female in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms distaff
Derivation femaleness


female sensitiveness.
female suffrage.
Type Words
Synonyms female person
Type of somebody, individual, person, someone, soul, mortal
Has types adult female, female child, female offspring, foster-sister, foster sister, girl, girl wonder, little girl, woman
Type Words
Type of creature, fauna, animate being, brute, beast, animal
Has types dam, hen, female mammal, filly
Type Words
Derivation femaleness


a female heir.
female holly trees bear the berries.
Type Words
Derivation femaleness


the female lead in the play.
a female chorus.

Examples of female

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The supporting female characters are a hoot as they critique Charlie's behavior.
From the stltoday.com
The female robber jumped out of her car with the purse, and O'Donnell sped away.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Just 4 of the 272 self-made billionaires on the Forbes 400 rich list are female.
From the forbes.com
The female victim was distracted while gathering books to return to the library.
From the dailyherald.com
The vaccinators are often female so mothers will trust them with their children.
From the kansas.com
New sports added to the Olympics must include both male and female participants.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Researchers said they believe the female squid was caught while laying its eggs.
From the upi.com
That's a vast improvement from 20 years ago, when only 30% of grads were female.
From the businessweek.com
For one, there are fewer female managers therefore fewer female EMBA candidates.
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More examples
  • An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
  • 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"
  • Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
  • A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
  • For or pertaining to or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"
  • Female (u2640) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells). Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes.
  • Is a 2005 release consisting of five short films by different directors, each based on a short story by a female author.
  • Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. This article describes morphological aspects of sexual reproduction of plants.
  • Female is a 1933 Warner Bros. pre-code film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent.