women*

noun

Women and other feminine individuals, including femme or AFAB nonbinary and other queer identities.

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Meanings

nounwomen* pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyrarefeminismWomen and other feminine individuals, including femme or AFAB nonbinary and other queer identities.

    It is also important whether we speak of a women*'s strike, a feminist strike, or even a FLINTA* strike.

    2024 June 17, Antonia Kupfer, Constanze Stutz, Contested Social and Ecological Reproduction: Impacts of States, Social Movements, and Civil Society in Times of Crisis, Verlag Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 125
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    This system oppresses women* and people with gender identities and sexualities that do not conform to male-heterosexual norms.

    2019 February 20, Oksana Shine, “Feminism: Why a women*’s strike on March 8?”, in International Viewpoint

    Female:Pressure is a transnational network of database and network of women*, AFAB, transgender, transfeminine, transmasculine, intersex (+gender optional), genderqueer, gender nonconforming, a-gender or/and non-binary artists in electronic music and digital arts.

    2026, “Resources, Initiatives and Organisations Working Towards a Representative Music Industry”, in Key Change

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
womxn

Origin

From women + -*.

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APA

women*. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women%2A

MLA

“women*.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women%2A. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “women*,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women%2A.

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