Usually means: Women romantically attracted to women.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word lesbian:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesbian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lesbian: Merriam-Webster
  3. Lesbian, lesbian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Lesbian, lesbian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lesbian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Lesbian, lesbian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lesbian, lesbian: Wordnik
  8. lesbian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lesbian, lesbian: Wiktionary
  10. lesbian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lesbian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Lesbian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lesbian: Dictionary.com
  14. lesbian (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lesbian: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lesbian (disambiguation), Lesbian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lesbian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lesbian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Lesbian: Rhymezone
  20. lesbian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lesbian: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lesbian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Lesbian: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lesbian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lesbian: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lesbian: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. lesbian: Medical dictionary
  6. Lesbian: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLBT DICTIONARY (No longer online)
  2. lesbian: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lesbianing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.
adjective:  (of a woman, loosely) Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
adjective:  (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.
adjective:  (especially of an institution or group) Intended for lesbians.
noun:  A gay woman, one who is mostly or exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
noun:  (uncommon) A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.
verb:  (informal, nonstandard, ambitransitive) To (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity.
noun:  (countable) A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
noun:  (linguistics, uncountable) The variety of Aeolic Greek spoken on Lesbos from about 800 to 300 b.c., best known from the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.
noun:  (historical) A sweet, mild wine made on Lesbos in ancient times.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of or pertaining to the Lesbian variety of Aeolic Greek.
adjective:  (archaic) Amatory; erotic.
adjective:  (now rare) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos”). [Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos.]
noun:  (now rare) Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”) [(countable) A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.]
noun:  (countable) Alternative letter-case form of lesbian (“gay woman”). [A gay woman, one who is mostly or exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.]
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of lesbian (“of women: gay”). [(of a woman) Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.]

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