2.6.5 Male, female

Use this domain for words referring to male and female people.

Louw Nida Codes: 
79V Male, Female
  • What general words refer to the difference between male and female?
    sex, gender, male, female
  • What pairs of words refer to male and female people?
    the sexes, male and female, men and women, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, guys and gals,
  • What words refer to something (such as a plant) that is neither male nor female?
    asexual, sexless
  • What words refer to something (such as a plant) that is both male and female?
    androgynous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic,
  • What words describe something to do with the sex of a person?
    sexual,
  • What words describe a school or organization that includes males and females?
    mixed, coed,
  • What words describe a school or organization that includes only males or females?
    single-sex,
  • What words refer to a person of the other sex?
    the opposite sex,
  • What words refer to problems between men and women?
    sexual equality, sexual discrimination, sexism, sexist, male chauvinism, male chauvinist, feminism, feminist,
  • 2.6.5.1 Man

    Use this domain for words referring to a man or any male person.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    9B Males
  • What words refer to a man?
    man, guy, bloke, chap, fellow, gentleman, male, men folk,
  • What words refer to a young man?
    boy, lad, youth, young man, schoolboy, little shaver,
  • What words describe a man?
    cad, chesty, dandified, dandy, fatherly, foppish, fox, gentlemanly, rake, stud,
  • What words describe a man who acts like a man?
    masculine, virile, manly, macho, he-man,
  • What words describe a man who acts like a boy or a woman?
    boyish, childish, effeminate, milksop, mincing, sissified, sissy, unmanly, wimp, womanish
  • What words describe something to do with men?
    male, masculine,
  • What words refer to whether or not a man is married?
    bachelor, castrated, celibate, divorcé, eunuch, widower,
  • What do you call a man when you talk to him?
    sir, Mr., mate, buddy, mister, sire, lord,
  • 2.6.5.2 Woman

    Use this domain for words referring to a woman or any female person.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    9C Females
  • What words refer to a woman?
    woman, lady, female, gal, belle, chick, dame, frau, gentlewoman, mistress, senorita, wench, womenfolk,
  • What words refer to a young woman?
    girl, lass, young woman, schoolgirl,
  • What words describe a woman?
    busty, catty, curvaceous, distaff, doll, girlish, hag, maidenly, shrew, slatternly, slattern, feminine, ladylike, virginal,
  • What words describe a woman who acts like a woman?
    feminine, ladylike, womanly, femininity,
  • What words describe a woman who acts like a man?
    mannish, tomboy, tomboyish,
  • What words describe something to do with women?
    female, feminine, women's
  • What words refer to whether or not a woman is married?
    wife, virgin, old maid, maiden, divorcée, lesbian,
  • What do you call a woman when you talk to her?
    madam, ma'am, Miss, Mrs., Ms., lady, Lady,