Woman

Word WOMAN
Character 5
Hyphenation wom an
Pronunciations /ˈwʊmɘn/

Definitions and meanings of "Woman"

What do we mean by woman?

An adult female human. noun

Women considered as a group; womankind. noun

An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination. noun

A female servant or subordinate. noun

A wife. noun

A female lover or sweetheart. noun

((one's) own woman) Independent in judgment or action. idiom

(to a woman) Without exception. idiom

An adult female of the human race; figuratively, the female sex; human females collectively. See lady, 5. noun

The qualities which characterize womanhood; tenderness; gentleness; also, when used of a man, effeminacy; weakness. noun

A female attendant on a person of rank (used in such a connection as to show the special sense intended). noun

A woman experienced in the ways of the world; a woman engrossed in society or fashionable life. noun

To act the part of a woman: with an indefinite it.

To cause to act like a woman; subdue to weakness like a woman.

To unite to, or accompany by, a woman.

To call (a person) “woman” in an abusive way.

Formerly, the side of a British penny on which was the figure of Britannia, the other having the king's head: as “man or woman?”—that is, heads or tails? noun

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. noun

The female part of the human race; womankind. noun

An adult female human.

(collective) All females collectively; womankind.

A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

A female attendant or servant.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Woman

The word "woman" in example sentences

In Tibetan both the methods of order and of true case relation may be employed: woman white (i.e., “white woman”) or white-of woman (i.e., “woman of whiteness, woman who is white, white woman”). ❋ Unknown (1921)

She forced her legs to move, creaking, one step at a time, thinking to herself: _The gypsy woman, the gypsy woman, the gypsy woman_ -- and trying to ignore the voices in her head that went on and on: ❋ Laurence M. Janifer (1967)

(_Enter a Greek woman with a bow_.) _Greek woman_. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)

One woman was shot through the face, but that was not worthy of notice, for she was only a _colored woman_; and in that, as in other slave States, the laws give to the white population the liberty to trample under foot the claims of all such persons to justice. ❋ Austin Steward (N/A)

"Look here, my boy, I can do almost anything; but I would not wrong a woman, -- no, not a _woman_, -- I am above that," said Vernon, with much emphasis. ❋ Warren T. Ashton (N/A)

Indeed, to have entertained any would have been impossible -- but she could not bear to see him liked, admired, esteemed, by any woman -- mark me, I say by _any woman_; for no one could feel more triumphant joy than she did when she saw him duly appreciated by men. ❋ Various (N/A)

(_Enter the first woman, with the clay peacock_.) _First woman_. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)

_Who_ came? i.e. _what man, what woman, what person; -- which man, woman_, or _person_, came? ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself -- a woman -- a _woman_ suggesting she doesn't want a baby!" ❋ May Edginton (1920)

” Thackeray, happily, lived at a time before the strong-minded woman had come into fashion—at a time when it was generally received and believed that “woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse. ❋ Unknown (1917)

But it still remains that what the true artists of the world for ever seek -- whether they be male or female -- is not the partial and distorted vision of man as _a man_, or of woman _as a woman_, but the rhythmic and harmonious vision of, the human soul as it allies itself with the vision of the immortals. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Of the doctrine that divorce is only permitted for the help of wives, he exclaims, “Palpably uxorious! who can be ignorant that woman was created for man, and not man for woman ❋ Unknown (1909)

I doubt if it's safe to pamper and trim and stimulate and refine a woman in that hothouse atmosphere -- at least _if she's a healthy woman_. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

I do n't want to say anything agin Anna Dickinsin because she is my friend, but if she come to talk here about a woman you know nothing about, and no one knows whether there was such a woman* ❋ Unknown (1883)

A man may beat his wife all he pleases; but if he beats another man the law immediately interferes, showing that the woman is not protected simply because she is so indiscreet as to _be a woman_. ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1862)

A woman, therefore, can never show her superior intellectual powers better than by cheerfully accepting the calling for which the Creator evidently intended her; that is, for _woman, wife, and mother_. ❋ Michael M��ller (1862)

Because, the man, _quâ man_, and the deputed head of all inferior creatures, was nearer to his Creator, than the woman; who, _quâ woman_, proceeded out of man. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)

Ronald, or with any one but a woman, _and such a woman_. ❋ Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1844)

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