beta female
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.
Example Sentences
- "In seventeen instances, an alpha female approached a beta female while both were alone, and they mated."
- "The alpha female of troop I, with her offspring at her chest, sits next to the beta female."
- "Let me get this in focus and ... okay, we got, yes, I think so, the beta female and the omega male, he's a shade darker."
- "The Beta Female is perceptive, emotional, maternal and soft."
- "The beta female is sensitive: rather than shouting and being aggressive, she shows her discontent with tears and a pouting lip."
- "She demonstrated in her research that a combination of masculine and feminine dispositions is more adaptive than stereotypial extremes. Bad news for the alpha male and beta female!"