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woman /ˈwʊmən /noun (plural women /ˈwɪmɪn/)1An adult human female: a jury of seven women and five men [as modifier]: a woman doctor...- The jury of seven women and five men were discharged after failing to reach a verdict after more than eight hours of deliberation.
- Of the seven women lifters, five bagged three gold each, while two others had one each.
- Violence against women is a fundamental abuse of women's human rights and the scale of the problem is phenomenal.
Synonyms lady, girl, member of the fair/gentle sex, female; matron, dowager; Scottish & Northern English lass, lassie; Irish colleen; Australian yorga informal chick, girlie, filly, biddy British informal bird, bint, popsy Scottish & Northern English informal besom, wifie North American informal dame, broad, gal, jane, sister Australian/New Zealand informal sheila British informal, dated Judy North American informal, dated frail humorous the female of the species derogatory piece, bit, mare, baggage offensive bitch literary maid, maiden, damsel, demoiselle archaic or humorous wench archaic gentlewoman, petticoat 1.1 [with modifier] A female person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation: one of his sophisticated London women...- Flora was the young Highland woman who saved the prince by dressing him as her Irish maid and taking him across the sea to Skye.
- A young gypsy woman entered his caravan and asked if he would be joining them for a meal.
- The fact that the young Latina woman was less than half his age meant nothing to Webb.
1.2A peremptory form of address to a woman: don’t be daft, woman!...- For God's sake, woman, it's a tweed skirt and a polo neck with a pair of boots.
- I told you to be home when I get home, little woman.
1.3A female worker or employee. 1.4A female who is paid to clean someone’s house and carry out other domestic duties: a daily womanSynonyms cleaning woman, cleaner, domestic help, domestic, maid British dated charwoman, char British informal daily, Mrs Mop 1.5A man’s wife, girlfriend, or lover: he wondered whether Billy had his woman with himSynonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée; wife, spouse, helpmate, helpmeet, consort; lover, mistress, paramour informal bird, fancy woman, old lady, missus, missis, better half, other half, WAGs (wives and girlfriends), POSSLQ (person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters), queen British informal Dutch, her indoors, girlf Irish informal mot North American informal squeeze, patootie Australian informal dona Indian informal bibi British rhyming slang trouble and strife dated lady friend, lady love, young lady, lady, lady wife archaic leman, doxy, concubine Phrasesbe one's own woman the little woman my good woman woman of letters woman of the streets woman of the world woman to woman Derivativeswomanless adjective ...- Their former captain offers a cynical toast, tweaking that ‘wonderful, abstaining, womanless Führer’ for his brilliant naval strategy, in spite of being an amateur painter by trade.
- A black Freudian family drama, the play presents the return to his north London home and ostentatiously womanless family of Teddy, an academic, and his wife of six years, Ruth, once a photographic model.
- I'm 27 years old, not exactly ugly, and womanless.
womanlike adjective ...- Different though Jill and Karen Sprecher may be, they seem to be conducting a womanlike conversation about some of the very same things.
- At the front of the ship, the figurehead's womanlike face was thrown back in a howl of ecstasy, paws clutching her breasts, wings flared.
- He relates this factor to the adult Jesus' antipatriarchal behavior and to the fact that the adult Jesus often acted in a womanlike manner.
OriginOld English wīfmon, -man (see wife, man), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being wife. In Old English the spelling of woman was wīfmon or wīfman, a combination of wife (which then meant simply ‘woman’) and man (which meant ‘person’), so a woman was a ‘female person’. A woman's work is never done and a woman's place is in the home reflect the traditional view of the sexes. The former was first recorded in 1570, as ‘Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but housewives' affairs have never no end’. In response to such ideas, during the 1970s and 1980s some feminists decided that the usual plural of woman, women, had to be changed, because it contained men. They used womyn or wimmin, neither of which really caught on. The saying ‘ A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’ is sometimes credited to the American feminist Gloria Steinem but was probably just an anonymous piece of graffiti.
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