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lesbianise

lesbianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of lesbianize.

Meaning of lesbianize

Verb

lesbianize (third-person singular simple present lesbianizes, present participle lesbianizing, simple past and past participle lesbianized)

  1. (transitive) To make lesbian.
    • Thus the poem lesbianises a myth of heterosexual conflict.1993, Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women, Bello, published 2014, page 128

Forms of lesbianise

third-person singular presentlesbianises
present participlelesbianising
past participlelesbianised
pastlesbianised

Questions about lesbianise

What is lesbianise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Lesbianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of lesbianize.

Words near lesbianise in the dictionary

  1. lesbianhood
  2. lesbianic
  3. lesbianically
  4. lesbianing
  5. lesbianisation
  6. lesbianise
  7. lesbianised
  8. lesbianises
  9. lesbianish
  10. lesbianising
  11. lesbianism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lesbianise (page history and authors); lesbianize (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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