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woman
1[ woom-uhn ]
noun
- an adult female person. Compare man ( def 1 ), girl ( def 1 ).
- a female employee or representative:
A woman from the real estate agency called.
- Informal.
- a wife.
- a female lover or sweetheart.
- Older Use: Usually Offensive. a female employee who cleans a house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper.
- (in historical use) a female attendant to a lady of rank:
Your woman informed us of your travel plans.
- the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness:
He has always loved and admired the woman in her.
- women collectively:
Woman is no longer subordinate to man.
verb (used with object)
- to put into the company of a woman.
- to equip or staff with women.
- Obsolete. to cause to act or yield like a woman.
-woman
2- a combining form of woman:
chairwoman; forewoman; spokeswoman.
woman
/ ˈwʊmən /
noun
- an adult female human being
- modifier female or feminine
woman talk
a woman politician
- women collectively; womankind
- the womanfeminine nature or feelings
babies bring out the woman in her
- a female servant or domestic help
- a man considered as having supposed female characteristics, such as meekness or timidity
- informal.a wife, mistress, or girlfriend
- the little woman informal.one's wife
- woman of the streetsa prostitute
verb
- rare.to provide with women
- obsolete.to make effeminate
Sensitive Note
Gender Note
Derived Forms
- ˈwoman-ˌlike, adjective
- ˈwomanless, adjective
Other Words From
- wom·an·less adjective
- an·ti·wom·an adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of woman1
Idioms and Phrases
- be one's own woman, (of females) to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence; be independent.
More idioms and phrases containing woman
see feel like oneself (new woman) ; marked man (woman) ; (woman) of few words ; own person (woman) ; right-hand man (woman) ; scarlet woman .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Many women have borne the brunt of care work during the pandemic in ways that impact their work.
I know there are more women who have been employed and minorities than ever before.
More news below, including Citigroup’s decision to name Jane Fraser its next CEO—the first woman to head a major Wall Street bank.
That article described the woman involved in the encounter with Mallott with sufficient detail to identify her as Jody Potts.
Twelve of the top 100 films were directed by woman, four times the number of 2007 and more than twice the five films of 2018.
A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.
In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
She was also supposed to be the original or model of “the Virtuous Woman” therein portrayed!
The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.
There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.
I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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