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fems

fems is the plural of fem.

Meaning of fem

Noun

fem (plural fems)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of femme.
    • Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    femme
    Antonyms:
    butch
  2. (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes) A feminine or effeminate person.
    • Versatile, but love to bottom … No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference.2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr

See all 4 meanings of fem

Noun capitalized: FEMs

FEMs

  1. (plural) plural of FEM

Questions about fems

What is fems the plural of?
Fems is the plural of fem.
What part of speech is fems?
Fems is a noun.

Words near fems in the dictionary

  1. Femquisitor
  2. feMRA
  3. feMRAs
  4. Femroe
  5. Femroth
  6. fems
  7. fems.
  8. FemShep
  9. femslash
  10. femslasher
  11. femslashers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fems (page history and authors); FEMs (page history and authors); fem (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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