"womxn" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwʊ.mən/ [singular], /ˈwɪ.mɪn/ [plural] Forms: womxn [plural]
enPR: wo͝oʹ-mən [singular], wĭʹ-mĭn [plural] Rhymes: -ʊmən, -ɪmɪn Etymology: From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope. Etymology templates: {{infix|en|women|x}} women + -x-, {{noncog|en|womyn}} English womyn, {{noncog|en|Latinx}} English Latinx Head templates: {{en-noun|womxn}} womxn (plural womxn)
  1. (rare) Feminist spelling of woman. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Feminism
    Sense id: en-womxn-en-noun-kJUvO7mu Disambiguation of Feminism: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms infixed with -x-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms infixed with -x-: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50

Noun

IPA: /ˈwʊ.mən/ [singular], /ˈwɪ.mɪn/ [plural]
enPR: wo͝oʹ-mən [singular], wĭʹ-mĭn [plural] Rhymes: -ʊmən, -ɪmɪn Etymology: From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope. Etymology templates: {{infix|en|women|x}} women + -x-, {{noncog|en|womyn}} English womyn, {{noncog|en|Latinx}} English Latinx Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} womxn
  1. (rare) Feminist spelling of women. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Feminism
    Sense id: en-womxn-en-noun-LTgQSNbL Disambiguation of Feminism: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms infixed with -x-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms infixed with -x-: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
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          "ref": "2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 294:",
          "text": "“Coyolxauhqui Canto” by Cristina Gorocica, a song written in offering to the moon, documents the moment of recognition when a womxn's body undergoing a metamorphoses to accommodate the growth of life is mirrored back in the phases of [the moon].",
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      "enpr": "wo͝oʹ-mən",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwʊ.mən/",
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      "enpr": "wĭʹ-mĭn",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɪ.mɪn/",
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      "homophone": "woman"
    },
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      "homophone": "women"
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      "rhymes": "-ʊmən"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪmɪn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "womxn"
}

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          "text": "Twenty-One Ways of Leaving:\n[…]\n19. The womxn in their thirties.\nThe womxn with wrinkles at the edges of their eyes.\nThe womxn who spell lonely with ambition.\nThe womxn in their thirties.\nThe womxn who do not bring up your age at the dinner table.\nThe womxn who bring up your accolades at the dinner table.\nThe womxn who make love to you\nand introduce you at the dinner table\nlike they have not been intimate with your sheets.\nOh honey, run.\nNo.\nThe other way.",
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          "ref": "2017, Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 443:",
          "text": "She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of Silence. She is currently in the process of applying to film school and to a graduate doctoral program to extend her work of supporting womxn and Indigenous communities ...",
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          "ref": "2017, Rae Paris, The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "To every person I spoke with on my many trips across the country, to guides/mentors/friends/fam: to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for living queer Black brilliance and Black love, for creating space to remember Harriett Tubman, and for continuing to create Black Spaces for us rooted in the ways and words of Black womxn; ...",
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        "(rare) Feminist spelling of women."
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      "ipa": "/ˈwʊ.mən/",
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      "ipa": "/ˈwɪ.mɪn/",
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          "text": "A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?",
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          "text": "She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of Silence. She is currently in the process of applying to film school and to a graduate doctoral program to extend her work of supporting womxn and Indigenous communities ...",
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