womxn
Syllables: wo·mxn
More pronunciations (2)Fewer pronunciations
singular/ˈwʊ.mən/plural/ˈwɪ.mɪn/
womxn noun: feminist spelling of woman.
Noun (1)
womxn (plural womxn)
- Feminist spelling of woman.
- A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN
- “Coyolxauhqui Canto” by Cristina Gorocica, a song written in offering to the moon, documents the moment of recognition when a womxn's body undergoing a metamorphoses to accommodate the growth of life is mirrored back in the phases of [the moon].2019, Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 294
Noun (2)
womxn
- Feminist spelling of women.
- Twenty-One Ways of Leaving:
[…]
19. The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn with wrinkles at the edges of their eyes.
The womxn who spell lonely with ambition.
The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn who do not bring up your age at the dinner table.
The womxn who bring up your accolades at the dinner...2017, Koleka Putuma, Collective Amnesia, →ISBN, page 44 - She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of...2017, Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 443
- Twenty-One Ways of Leaving:
Forms of womxn
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Origin of womxn
From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope.
Words that rhyme with womxn
Questions about womxn
- What does womxn mean?
- Womxn means feminist spelling of woman.
- What part of speech is womxn?
- Womxn is a noun.
- How do you pronounce womxn?
- Womxn is pronounced /ˈwʊ.mən/ (singular).
- What is the plural of womxn?
- The plural of womxn is womxn.
Words near womxn in the dictionary
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