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THESAURUS
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woman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun woman has 4 senses
- woman(n = noun.person) adult female - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" has parts: adult female body, woman's body
- woman(n = noun.person) Array - a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman" is a kind of female, female person
- woman(n = noun.person) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman - a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" is a kind of cleaner
- woman(n = noun.group) fair sex, womanhood - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
has particulars: black woman, white woman, yellow woman, amazon, virago, maenad, bachelor girl, bachelorette, baggage, ball-breaker, ball-buster, b-girl, bar girl, bas bleu, bluestocking, bridesmaid, maid of honor, broad, cat, cinderella, coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper, dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, deb, debutante, divorcee, grass widow, ex, ex-wife, dominatrix, donna, delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren, temptress, eyeful, geisha, geisha girl, fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, girl, girl, girlfriend, lady friend, girlfriend, gold digger, gravida, heroine, inamorata, jezebel, jilt, lady, maenad, materfamilias, matriarch, matriarch, matron, mestiza, fancy woman, kept woman, mistress, mother figure, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nullipara, houri, nymph, nymphet, old woman, bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl, shiksa, shikse, beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart, sylph, unmarried woman, vestal, wac, wave, widow, widow woman, married woman, wife, wonder woman
is a kind of adult, grownup, female, female person
Antonym: man
Derived forms noun womanhood3, noun womanhood2, noun womanhood1, verb womanise1, verb womanize2, adjective womanly1
Antonym: man
Derived forms verb womanise1, verb womanize1
is a member of womankind
Derived forms noun womanhood3, noun womanhood1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. [1913 Webster]"Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible." [1913 Webster]"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman." [1913 Webster]"I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest." [1913 Webster]
- The female part of the human race; womankind. [1913 Webster]"Man is destined to be a prey to woman." [1913 Webster]
- A female attendant or servant. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
1 an adult human female.
2 the female sex; any or an average woman (how does woman differ from man?).
3 a wife or female sexual partner.
4 (prec. by the) emotions or characteristics traditionally associated with women (brought out the woman in him).
5 a man with characteristics traditionally associated with women.
6 (attrib.) female (woman driver; women friends).
7 (as second element in comb.) a woman of a specified nationality, profession, skill, etc. (Englishwoman; horsewoman).
8 colloq. a female domestic help.
9 archaic or hist. a queen's etc. female attendant ranking below lady (woman of the bedchamber).
DEVIL DICTIONARY
woman
n.
An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.
Balthasar Pober