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 fashion—at 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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