Dictionary Definition
bluestocking n : a woman having literary or
intellectual interests [syn: bas bleu]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
- quotations:
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- "The artist who created strong, passionate, brilliant heroines turns out to have disapproved of bluestockings and refused to educate his own intelligent daughters." — New York Times, October 5, 2003
Extensive Definition
Bluestocking is a disparaging term, no longer in
common use, for an educated, intellectual woman. 'Bluestocking' may
also refer to:
- Bluestockings (bookstore), an infoshop in New York City
- Bluestocking (journal), a Japanese anarcha-feminist newsmagazine
- Blue Stockings Society (England), a women's movement based on the French movement
bluestocking in German: Blaustrumpf
bluestocking in Finnish: Sinisukka
bluestocking in French: Bas-bleu
bluestocking in Hungarian: Kékharisnya
bluestocking in Polish: Bluestocking
bluestocking in Swedish: Blåstrumpa
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bibliophagic, book-fed,
book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise,
bookish, booky, donnish, formalist, inkhorn, literary, pedant, pedantic, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisionist, purist, scholastic