adult female

1. 1.

   an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

   “the woman kept house while the man hunted”

   Synonymswoman

   Broaderfemaleadult

   NarrowerEvewhite womanamazonmaenadbachelor girlbaggageball-busterB-girlbluestockingbridesmaid

   Partsadult female body

Questions about adult female

What does adult female mean?

adult female means "an adult female person (as opposed to a man)".

What is another word for adult female?

Close synonyms include woman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adult female a common word?

adult female is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.