lesbian

adjective more lesbian · most lesbian · le$bian · le dollar bean · les🫘

1. of a woman 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. broadly, of a woman Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.

   Similar: dyke

3. of a romantic or sexual act or relationship Between two or more women; homosexual, gay. a lesbian relationship / marriage / kiss

   Similar: dyke, gay, homosexual

4. especially, of an institution or group Intended for lesbians. We're going to a lesbian bar tonight.
5. archaic Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos”).

Similar: gay, homosexual

noun lesbians · le$bian · le dollar bean · les🫘

1. A homosexual woman, a woman who is exclusively sexually and/or romantically attracted to other women. There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.

   Similar: beanflicker, bulldiker, bulldyker, carpet muncher, chemise lifter, clam smacker, clitorist, crack snacker, donut bumper, dyke, flat cracker, gayelle

2. uncommon 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).
3. archaic Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”).

verb lesbians · lesbianing · lesbianed · le$bian · le dollar bean

1. ambitransitive, informal, nonstandard To (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity. That's the way I want to go – Lesbianed to death.

noun Lesbians

1. countable A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.

   Similar: Lesvian, Lesviot, Lesbosian

2. uncountable The variety of Aeolic Greek spoken on Lesbos from about 800 to 300 b.c., best known from the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.
3. countable, historical, uncountable A sweet, mild wine made on Lesbos in ancient times. Our Saviour in the gospel preferreth old wine before new; & Aristotle liketh better of the wine of Lesbos, the the^([sic]) wine of Rhodes; he affirmeth both to be good, but the Lesbian the more pleasant, alluding vnder that parable to the successour of his schoole, and noting his choise rather of Th
4. countable Alternative letter-case form of lesbian (“gay woman”).

adjective more Lesbian · most Lesbian

1. Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos. Within twenty-four hours of quitting the security of a Lesbian port, all the contrarieties I had experienced were to be exceeded by the horrors of a tremendous hurricane.

   Similar: Lesbosian

2. Of or pertaining to the Lesbian variety of Aeolic Greek.
3. Alternative letter-case form of lesbian (“of women: gay”). Except two breeds—the stupid and the narrowly feline—all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.
4. archaic Amatory; erotic. Lesbian novels