woman

Noun	1.	woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" adult female adult female body, woman's body - the body of an adult woman adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward female person, female - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies Black woman - a woman who is Black white woman - a woman who is White amazon, virago - a large strong and aggressive woman maenad - (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus bachelor girl, bachelorette - a young unmarried woman who lives alone baggage - a worthless or immoral woman ball-breaker, ball-buster - a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence bar girl, B-girl - a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers bas bleu, bluestocking - a woman having literary or intellectual interests bridesmaid, maid of honor - an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding broad - slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch" cat - a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" Cinderella - a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition coquette, flirt, minx, vamp, vamper, tease - a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men gentlewoman, ma'am, madam, lady, dame - a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" deb, debutante - a young woman making her debut into society divorcee, grass widow - a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband ex-wife, ex - a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife; "all his exes live in Texas" donna - an Italian woman of rank enchantress, femme fatale, temptress, Delilah, siren - a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive eyeful - a strikingly beautiful woman; "she was a statuesque redheaded eyeful" geisha, geisha girl - a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman - a young woman; "a young lady of 18" girl - a friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls" lady friend, girlfriend, girl - a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" girlfriend - any female friend; "Mary and her girlfriend organized the party" gold digger - a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement gravida - a pregnant woman heroine - a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds inamorata - a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship jezebel - a shameless impudent scheming woman jilt - a woman who jilts a lover lady - a polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me" maenad - an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman materfamilias, matriarch - a female head of a family or tribe matriarch - a feisty older woman with a big bosom (as drawn in cartoons) matron - a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution mestiza - a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) kept woman, mistress, fancy woman - an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man mother figure - a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother nanny, nursemaid, nurse - a woman who is the custodian of children nullipara - (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child houri, nymph - a voluptuously beautiful young woman nymphet - a sexually attractive young woman old woman - a woman who is old cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money knockout, lulu, mantrap, stunner, peach, ravisher, smasher, looker, beauty, sweetheart, dish - a very attractive or seductive looking woman adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	2.	woman - 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" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech female person, female - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies man - a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"
	3.	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" charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, char cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning
	4.	woman - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" fair sex, womanhood social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" womankind - women as distinguished from men

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woman

Related words
combining forms gyn(o)-, gynaeco-
like gynomania
fear gynophobia

Quotations
"The meaning of what it is to be a woman has never been more open-ended and therefore more filled with anxiety" [Nancy Friday What is a Real Woman?]
"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" [Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own]
"The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition" [Jeannette Rankin]
"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" [Edith Evans]
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'" [Sigmund Freud]
"A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle" [Edna Ferber]
"I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same" [Iris Murdoch The Red and the Green]
"Fickle and changeable always is woman" [Virgil Aeneid]
"A man is as old as he's feeling,"
"A woman as old as she looks" [Mortimer Collins The Unknown Quantity]
"Men play the game, women know the score" [Roger Woddis]
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in" [Anita Brookner]
"One is not born a woman; one becomes one" [Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex]
"Woman was God's second blunder" [Friedrich Nietzsche Der Antichrist]
"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football" [Fran Lebowitz Metropolitan Life]
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript" [Sir Richard Steele The Spectator]
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" [attributed to Gloria Steinem]
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" [William Shakespeare Hamlet]
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can" [Jane Austen Northanger Abbey]
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not" [Colette]
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult" [Charlotte Whitton]
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his" [Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest]
"When women go wrong, men go right after them" [Mae West]
"Women - one half of the human race at least - care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry" [Walter Bagehot The English Constitution]
"Women can't forgive failure" [Anton Chekhov The Seagull]
"Women are really much nicer than men: no wonder we like them" [Kingsley Amis A Bookshop Idyll]
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke" [Gloria Steinem Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions]
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature" [Lawrence Durrell Justine]
"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?" [Mary Astell Some Reflections upon Marriage]
"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything" [Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac]
"O fairest of creation, last and best"
"Of all God's works" [John Milton Paradise Lost]

Proverbs
"A woman's place is in the home"
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
"A woman's work is never done"

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жена

žena

kvindekvinde-kvindeligkvindelig hushjælp

virino

naine

nainen

žena

asszonynő

perempuanwanita

konakvenmaðurhúshjálp, vinnukona

女性

여자

feminamulier

moterismoteriškoji pusėmoters brandos amžiusmoterys

sievieteizpalīdzekalpone

femeiemuiere

posluhovačkažena

ženskažena

kvinna

ผู้หญิง

kadıngünlük temizlikçi kadın

жінка

đàn bà

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woman

1. an adult human female. His sisters are both grown women now; (also adjective) a woman doctor; women doctors.

2. a female domestic daily helper. We have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning.

the state of being a woman. She will reach womanhood in a few years' time.

women generally.

(showing qualities) natural or suitable to a woman. a womanly figure; womanly charm.

female people, especially female relatives.

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