Females - English meaning

noun

A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.

Usage examples:

I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turk…

adjective

Having a distance larger than usual from side to side; wide.

Usage examples:

A broad staircase

noun

A woman.

Usage examples:

I get drunk, follow the pretty broads, and make a fool of myself

adjective

Very wide

Usage examples:

He flashed a broad grin at us., the magazine covers a broad range of subjects., he explained it in …

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

It is ironic that what o'casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at t…

noun

A girl or young woman

noun

(in the uk) the title given to a woman with the rank of knight commander or holder of the grand cross in the orders of chivalry.

Usage examples:

Dame vera lynn

adjective

(of a person) weak and delicate.

Usage examples:

His small, frail body

noun

A woman.

Usage examples:

Cosmetic manufacturers will never go out of business because the frails will always want to look li…

adjective

Physically weak, or easily damaged, broken, or harmed

Usage examples:

He’s always in frail health., the shirt is old and frail, and the threads look ready to part.

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

Pedal pushers and prom queens, floral corsages and full skirts, gingham checks and clinched waists …

noun

A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimetre per second per second.

abbreviation

Gallon(s).

noun

A female child.

Usage examples:

A six-year-old girl

noun

A female child or, more generally, a female of any age

Usage examples:

Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

noun

A woman.

Usage examples:

I'm just an average jane trying to get some return on her retirement savings

noun

The wife of punch in the punch and judy show.

Usage examples:

Aeons before political correctness reared its ugly head, the gangsters and apes and crooks (his guy…

noun

A traditional children's entertainment in which a man, mr punch, argues with his wife, judy. it was especially popular in the past as entertainment in british towns by the sea in summer.

noun

A polite or formal way of referring to a woman.

Usage examples:

I spoke to the lady at the travel agency

noun

A woman who is polite and behaves well toward other people

Usage examples:

Try to act like a lady., this lady has a question., ladies and gentlemen, may i have your attention…

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

He married a lass from yorkshire

noun

A girl or young woman.

Usage examples:

I'm going to see a wee lassie tonight

noun

A girl or young woman

noun

One's mother.

Usage examples:

I want my ma

abbreviation

Massachusetts (in official postal use).

noun

A female domestic servant.

Usage examples:

Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid

noun

A woman who is employed to clean hotel rooms and make them neat, or a woman who is a servant in a person’s home

Usage examples:

We left a note in our room for the maid to give us extra towels.

noun

A woman who works as a servant in a hotel or in someone's home

Usage examples:

In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service., in california many illegal…

noun

A girl or woman.

Usage examples:

A female may be my sheila, my bird, my charley, my good sort, my hot-drop, my judy or my wife, but …

noun

A girl or a woman

noun

A woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents.

Usage examples:

I had nine brothers and sisters

noun

A female who has the same parents as another person

Usage examples:

An older/younger sister, a sorority sister

adjective

Used to describe one of the organizations or companies in a pair or group of similar organizations when referring to it in relation to the others

Usage examples:

The competition is being run in conjunction with our sister publication money observer., sister com…

noun

A married woman considered in relation to her spouse.

Usage examples:

He and his wife are keen gardeners

noun

The woman to whom a man is married; a married woman

noun

A condescending way of referring to a person's wife.

Usage examples:

Did you see wifey's face at the press conference?

noun

An adult female human being.

Usage examples:

A drawing of a young woman

combining form

In nouns denoting a woman of a specified nationality or origin.

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Englishwoman

noun

An adult female human being

Usage examples:

Our chief of police is a woman, and our mayor is a woman, too., she is an active, elderly woman., m…