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lesbian

les·bi·an [ lézbee ən ]


noun  (plural les·bi·ans)
Definition:
 
homosexual woman: a woman who is sexually attracted to other women



adjective 
Definition:
 
of lesbians: involving or relating to lesbians

[Late 19th century. Lesbian, because the woman poet Sappho of Lesbos wrote poems to women]
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