woman
IPA: wˈʊmʌn
noun
- An adult female human.
- (collective) All female humans 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 person 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.
verb
- To staff with female labor.
- (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
- (transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
adjective
- (particularly Nigeria, India, sometimes proscribed) Of or relating to a woman/women; female.
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Examples of "woman" in Sentences
- (_Enter a Greek woman with a bow_.) _Greek woman_.
- (_Enter the first woman, with the clay peacock_.) _First woman_.
- _Who_ came? i.e. _what man, what woman, what person; -- which man, woman_, or _person_, came?
- "You ought to be ashamed of yourself -- a woman -- a _woman_ suggesting she doesn't want a baby!"
- "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.
- Thackeray, happily, lived at a time before the strong-minded woman had come into fashionat a time when it was generally received and believed that woman is not undeveloped man, but diverse.
- 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).
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
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