Female
Female noun - An adult female human being.
Usage example: the prospect of being in close company with females was the main reason why some males joined the amateur theater troupe
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- Everyone in the audition room other than Mackellen and Andy appear to have tomboyish names if they are female or girl names if they are male.
Source: Tomboyish Name - Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White has something of an Ill Girl Ball going between the young female characters (one suspects it's homing in on whoever it looks cutest on, given the way it goes...)
Source: Ill Girl / Literature -
Castiel's alternative vessel was a 12 year old girl, Lucifer appeared as a woman in both Sam and Nick's dreams, and Raphael's second vessel was female.
Source: The Nth Doctor
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Girl and Female. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/girl
Female & Girl. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/girl>.
Girl or Female. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/female/girl.
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