lesbian
adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue
- United States//ˈlɛz.bi.ən//
Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
adjective
- 1
Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
Lesbian fans of the show were rooting for Jane and Amanda to get together.
- 2
Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners. Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
- 3
Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.
a lesbian relationship / marriage / kiss
The so-termed Lesbian love is a vice of a still more hideous and degrading nature than pederasty.
[…] Madonna's infamous nationally televised lesbian kiss with Britney Spears […]
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Intended for lesbians.
We're going to a lesbian bar tonight.
Some lesbians also felt comfortable in the entertainment clubs in the black section of the city; these clubs were not lesbian but were lesbian friendly.
Openly gay poets such as Allen Ginsberg were prominent among the beats, and many North Beach bars were gay and lesbian as well as bohemian.
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Variant of LesbianarchaicAlternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos”).
Etymology
From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.
noun
- 1
A homosexual woman, a woman who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.
Another Spanish-speaking respondent said that she does not identify as a lesbian because that is a term for women who like women, and as she does not like women, and so she cannot be a lesbian.
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A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.
There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).
The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]
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Variant of LesbianarchaicAlternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”).
verb
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informalTo (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity.
That's the way I want to go – Lesbianed to death.
Surveillance by other inmates creates yet another dimension of power and control. Angry with Chapman and Vause, Dogget tells Healy that she has witnessed the two “lesbianing” in the shower, […]
Forms
- plural
- lesbians
- comparative
- more lesbian
- superlative
- most lesbian
- past tense
- lesbianed
- past participle
- lesbianed
- present participle
- lesbianing
- third person singular
- lesbians
lesbian · Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
Lesbian · A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.Leslie · A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.less · Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of…