FEMME
What does "FEMME" mean?
A person, especially in LGBTQ+ contexts, who expresses a feminine gender identity or style.
Meanings
- A person, often within queer culture, who presents in a markedly feminine way. She identifies as femme and dresses to match.
- Characterized by a feminine presentation or style. He has a soft, femme aesthetic in how he dresses.
- A woman, as in the borrowed French phrase 'femme fatale'. The film's femme fatale lured him into the scheme. formal
Did you know?
- 'Femme' is just the French word for 'woman', and through its Latin source 'femina' it is a close cousin of 'feminine' and 'female' - though English 'female' actually arrived by a different, unrelated-looking route.
Word origin
Directly from French 'femme' meaning 'woman', from Latin 'femina'; English borrowed it whole, keeping the French spelling and a near-French pronunciation.
Remember it
FEMME doubles the M of 'feminine' and stops there - keep the French spelling, drop the rest.
A little poem
Borrowed whole from another tongue,
soft as the vowel it rests upon.
couplet
What it teaches
Identity often borrows its words from elsewhere, then makes them entirely its own.
Quick facts
What does FEMME mean?
A person, especially in LGBTQ+ contexts, who expresses a feminine gender identity or style.
Is FEMME a valid word?
Yes — FEMME is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FEMME?
FEMME has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FEMME come from?
Directly from French 'femme' meaning 'woman', from Latin 'femina'; English borrowed it whole, keeping the French spelling and a near-French pronunciation.
What can FEMME teach us?
Identity often borrows its words from elsewhere, then makes them entirely its own.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.