female — OET · Shobdo

female

adjective

typical female attributes:

feminine, women's, of women, womanly, womanlike, she-;

archaic feminal.

▷antonyms male.

noun

the author was a female:

woman, adult female, lady;

girl;

Scottish, & Northern English lass, lassie;

Irish colleen;

informal member of the fair sex, member of the fairer sex, the female of the species;

British, informal bird;

Scottish, & Northern English, informal wife, wifie;

North American, informal gal, Jane, sister;

Australian, New Zealand, informal sheila;

British, informal , dated Judy;

North American, informal , dated dame, broad, frail;

literary maid, maiden, damsel, demoiselle;

archaic gentlewoman.

female Oxford Dictionary of English