femme

Meanings

Noun

• A woman, a wife; a young woman or girl.
• A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
• A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.

Adjective

• Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
• Effeminate (of a man).
• Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.

Related

Opposite words

• butch

Origin

• From French femme ("woman"). feme, femina, and hembra.