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lesbianist

lesbianist is the alternative form of lesbian.

Meaning of lesbian

Noun

lesbian (plural lesbians)

  1. A homosexual woman, a woman who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
    • There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.1904, Jacobus X, Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-pathology, volume 1, page 2
  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).1979, Terry Hekker, Ever Since Adam and Eve, New York: Morrow

See all 13 meanings of lesbian

Forms of lesbianist

plurallesbianists

Origin of lesbianist

From lesbian + -ist.

Questions about lesbianist

What is lesbianist the alternative form of?
Lesbianist is the alternative form of lesbian.

Words near lesbianist in the dictionary

  1. lesbianises
  2. lesbianish
  3. lesbianising
  4. lesbianism
  5. lesbianisms
  6. lesbianist
  7. lesbianistic
  8. lesbianists
  9. lesbianity
  10. lesbianization
  11. lesbianize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lesbianist (page history and authors); lesbian (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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