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bi

/baɪ/UK/biː/

bi is the clipping of bisexual.

bi is the clipping of bigender.

Meaning of bisexual

Adjective

bisexual (comparative more bisexual, superlative most bisexual)

  1. Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
    • Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.2016 October 7, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Skirt Club Is a Sex Club for the Casually Bisexual Modern Woman”, in VICE
    Antonyms:
    monosexual
  2. Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  3. Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  4. Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  5. Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  6. (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
    • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.

See all 12 meanings of bisexual

Meaning of bigender

Adjective

bigender (not comparable)

  1. Having two genders simultaneously, most commonly male and female.
  2. Having a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context.

See all 3 meanings of bigender

Noun (1)

bi (plural bis)

  1. (colloquial, uncommon) A biceps muscle.
    • You cannot train your back without regard to your tris and bis.

Noun (2)

bi (plural bi)

  1. A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.

Noun (3) capitalized: BI

BI (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of business interruption.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of business informatics.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of business intelligence.
  4. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of bad influence.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of burning index.

Proper noun capitalized: BI

BI

  1. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bureau of Immigration.

Synonyms of bi

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Forms of bi

pluralbis
pluralbi
alternative formpi

Origin of bi

Clipping of biceps.

From Mandarin 璧 (bì).

Words formed from bi

Phrases with bi

Words that rhyme with bi

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Questions about bi

What does bi mean?
Bi means a biceps muscle.
What is bi the clipping of?
Bi is the clipping of bisexual.
What part of speech is bi?
Bi can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bi?
Bi is pronounced /baɪ/.
What is the plural of bi?
The plural of bi is bis.

Words near bi in the dictionary

  1. Bhutto
  2. Bhuttos
  3. bhyacharra
  4. bhūmi
  5. bhūmis
  6. bi
  7. bi now, gay later
  8. BI&POC
  9. bi-
  10. bi-annual
  11. bi-asexual

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bi (page history and authors); BI (page history and authors); bisexual (page history and authors); bigender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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