Meaning of Lesbian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
   countable
2. A homosexual woman, one who is exclusively sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
3. 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.
   uncountable
4. A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.
   uncommon
5. A sweet, mild wine made on Lesbos in ancient times.
   countable, historical, uncountable
6. Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian (“native or inhabitant of Lesbos.”).
   alt-of, archaic
7. Alternative letter-case form of lesbian (“gay woman”).
   alt-of, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades.”

“Another Spanish-speaking respondent said that she does not identify as a lesbian because that is a term for women who like women, and as she does not like women, and so she cannot be a lesbian.”

“There was one recently that determined on an island off California 14 percent of the female sea gulls were lesbians (and we know that kind of thing would never go among Nantucket sea gulls).”

“The only between this pair and others in the community is that they are among the 8 to 14 percent of the residents that are lesbians. After building their nest, the pair, two female western gulls, customarily produce twice as many eggs […]”

“Our Saviour in the gospel preferreth old wine before new; & Aristotle liketh better of the wine of Lesbos, the the^([sic]) wine of Rhodes; he affirmeth both to be good, but the Lesbian the more pleasant, alluding vnder that parable to the successour of his schoole, and noting his choise rather of Theophrastus borne at Lesbos, then Menedemus at Rhodes.”

“[…] but the best Greek Wines, the Chian, Lesbian, Coan, &c. were equally prepared in the same manner; and we have reason to think that the same process was more generally used, and in preparing some of the best and most generous Italian wines.”

“More capacious bowls bring hither, boy, and the Chian wine or the Lesbian : or what might restrain this flowing qualm;”

“Horace, born 65 B.C., says that there is no wine sweeter to drink than Lesbian, and that it was perfectly harmless and would not produce intoxication.”

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