gay woman

1. 1.

   a female homosexual

   Synonymslesbiantribade

   Broaderhomosexual

   Narrowerbutch

Questions about gay woman

What does gay woman mean?

gay woman means "a female homosexual".

What is another word for gay woman?

Close synonyms include lesbian, tribade. 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 gay woman a common word?

gay woman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.