feminist

UK/ˈfɛmənɪst/US/ˈfɛmənɪst/

adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,248 of 15,258leans written

Feminist means working for equal rights and standing for women. A feminist writer, feminist history, a feminist argument.

The word arrived in English in the nineteenth century from French, and what it covers has been argued about within the movement ever since. It works as a noun and an adjective, and the noun is far the commoner.

Definitions of feminist

1adjectivefeministWorking for equal rights and standing for women.C1
“She wrote feminist essays arguing that women deserved the same pay as men.”

feminist is a quality.

Where it comes from

From French feministe, ultimately from Latin femina, a woman.

Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁(y)-
Latin
fēminīnus
English, today
feminist

Built from

fēmina · Latin — woman

1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

feminist in the wild

A person who advocates for feminism is known as a feminist.
Feminism
Changes in female dress standards and acceptable physical activities for women have also been part of feminist movements.
Feminism
Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism.
Feminist literary criticism
Traditionally, feminist literary criticism has sought to examine old texts within literary canon through a new lens.
Feminist literary criticism
In essence, the philosophy sees anarchist struggle as a necessary component of feminist struggle and vice versa.
Anarcha-feminism

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the fēmina family

female

feminist — used about once every 1,832 pages · #6,248 · point at the bar for the others

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