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FTM

FTM is the initialism of female-to-male.

FTM is the abbreviation of first-time mom/mother/mum.

FTM is the abbreviation of full-time mom/mother/mum.

FTM is the initialism of freedom to marry.

FTM is the initialism of for that matter.

Meaning of female-to-male

Adjective

female-to-male (not comparable)

  1. Transmasculine; transitioning or having transitioned (in gender identity or presentation, physically, etc) from being female to being male.
    Synonyms:
    FtM, F2M
  2. That changes a female end (usually a socket) of a connection into a male one (with pins, usually a plug).
    Antonyms:
    male-to-female
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, to, male.
    • The female-to-male ratio is 5-to-3.

See all 4 meanings of female-to-male

Meaning of for that matter

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) as far as that is concerned.
    • I didn't do it. For that matter, I didn't even know that it happened.
    Synonyms:
    come to that

Noun

FTM (plural FTMs)

  1. A female-to-male person.
    • At the end of the 1960s doctors at UCLA's Gender Identity Research Clinic debated privately whether FTMs even qualified as transsexuals.2013, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, page 373

Adjective capitalized: FtM

FtM

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender)”).

Forms of FTM

pluralFTMs

Questions about FTM

What does FTM mean?
FTM means a female-to-male person.
What is FTM the initialism of?
FTM is the initialism of female-to-male.
What part of speech is FTM?
FTM can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of FTM?
The plural of FTM is FTMs.

Words near FTM in the dictionary

  1. FTL drive
  2. FTL drives
  3. FTLB
  4. FTLBs
  5. FTLs
  6. FTM
  7. FTMFW
  8. FTMs
  9. FTMTF
  10. FTMTFs
  11. FTO

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FTM (page history and authors); FtM (page history and authors); female-to-male (page history and authors); for that matter (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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