Definition of "lesbian"

lesbian

/ˈlɛz.bɪ.ən/

adjective
comparative more lesbian, superlative most lesbian
1. (LGBT, of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
  1. (LGBT, of a woman, broadly) Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
2. (LGBT, of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.
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  The so-termed Lesbian love is a vice of a still more hideous and degrading nature than pederasty.
  1855 , Charles Hempel, transl., Homœopathic guide in all diseases of the Urinary and Sexual Organs, Philadelphia: Rademacher & Sheek, translation of Der homöopathische Rathgeber: in allen Krankheiten der Geschlechts- und Harnwerkzeuge by Wilhelm Gollmann, page 201
  […] Madonna's infamous nationally televised lesbian kiss with Britney Spears […]
  2011, Michael Bruce, Robert M. Stewart, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone, page 32
3. (LGBT, especially of an institution or group) Intended for lesbians.
  Quotations
  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.
  2000, Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures, volume 1, page 135
  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.
  2008, Carl Abbott, How cities won the West: four centuries of urban change, page 283
noun
plural lesbians
1. A homosexual woman, one who is mostly or exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
  Quotations
  There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.
  1904, Jacobus X, Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-pathology, volume 1, page 2
  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.
  2020, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Fábio Rafael Augusto, Practical and Ethical Dilemmas in Researching Sensitive Topics with Populations Considered Vulnerable, page 91
2. (uncommon) A homosexual female animal.
  Quotations
  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).
  1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve, New York: Morrow
  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 […]
  2014, George H Harrison, Birds Do It, Too: The Amazing Sex Life of Birds, Willow Creek Press
verb
third-person singular simple present lesbians, present participle lesbianing, simple past and past participle lesbianed
1. (informal, nonstandard, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity.
  Quotations
  That's the way I want to go – Lesbianed to death.
  2014, Ian Collin, Angels of The North, page 107
  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, […]
  2016, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black, page 85

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