lesbian

noun2

1. •
   a woman who wants love and sex only with other women, not with men

   • There have also been women who loved other women. These are the Lesbians or Tribades. — 1904
2. •
   A female animal that performs courtship, pairing or mating behavior with other female animals.

   • 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). — 1979

adjective4

1. •
   Homosexual, gay; preferring exclusively women as romantic or sexual partners.

   • Lesbian fans of the show were rooting for Jane and Amanda to get together.
2. •
   Preferring primarily women as romantic or sexual partners.
3. •
   Between two or more women; homosexual, gay.

   • The so-termed Lesbian love is a vice of a still more hideous and degrading nature than pederasty. — 1855
4. •
   Intended for lesbians.

   • We're going to a lesbian bar tonight.

verb1

1. •
   (informal, nonstandard) To (cause to) take part in lesbian sex, or other lesbian activity.

   • That's the way I want to go – Lesbianed to death. — 2014

adjective3

1. •
   Of or pertaining to the island of Lesbos.

   • Within twenty-four hours of quitting the security of a Lesbian port, all the contrarieties I had experienced were to be exceeded by the horrors of a tremendous hurricane. — 1805
2. •
   Of or pertaining to the Lesbian variety of Aeolic Greek.
3. •
   (no longer used) Amatory; erotic.

noun3

1. •
   A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.
2. •
   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.
3. •
   (historical) A sweet, mild wine made on Lesbos in ancient times.

   • More capacious bowls bring hither, boy, and the Chian wine or the Lesbian : or what might restrain this flowing qualm — 1841