What does woman mean?
Definitions for woman
ˈwʊm ən; ˈwɪm ɪnwom·an
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word woman.
Princeton's WordNet
woman, adult female(noun)
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
"the woman kept house while the man hunted"
woman(noun)
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"
charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman(noun)
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"
womanhood, woman, fair sex(noun)
women as a class
"it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"
Wiktionary
woman(Noun)
An adult female human.
Etymology: From woman, wimman, wifman, from wifmann, equivalent to . Compare vrouwmens. Compare also vrouwspersoon, Weibsperson.
woman(Noun)
A wife (sometimes a fiance or girlfriend)
Etymology: From woman, wimman, wifman, from wifmann, equivalent to . Compare vrouwmens. Compare also vrouwspersoon, Weibsperson.
woman(Verb)
To man with female labor.
Etymology: From woman, wimman, wifman, from wifmann, equivalent to . Compare vrouwmens. Compare also vrouwspersoon, Weibsperson.
woman(Verb)
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
To have him see me woman'd. uE0009427uE001 Shakespeare.
Etymology: From woman, wimman, wifman, from wifmann, equivalent to . Compare vrouwmens. Compare also vrouwspersoon, Weibsperson.
Webster Dictionary
Woman(noun)
an adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Woman(noun)
the female part of the human race; womankind
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Woman(noun)
a female attendant or servant
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Woman(verb)
to act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Woman(verb)
to make effeminate or womanish
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Woman(verb)
to furnish with, or unite to, a woman
Etymology: [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wfmann, wmmann; wf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
Freebase
Woman
A woman, pl: women is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Women are typically capable of giving birth, though older women who have gone through menopause and some intersex women cannot.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Woman
woom′an, n. the female of man, an adult female of the human race: the female sex, women collectively: a female attendant:—pl. Women (wim′en).—v.t. to cause to act like a woman, to unite to a woman (both Shak.): to call a person 'woman' abusively.—n. Wom′an-bod′y (Scot.), a woman, used disparagingly.—adjs. Wom′an-born, born of woman; Wom′an-built, built by women.—adv. Wom′anfully, like a woman.—adj. Wom′an-grown, grown to womanhood.—ns. Wom′an-hāt′er, a misogynist; Wom′anhood, the state, character, or qualities of a woman.—adj. Wom′anish, having the qualities of a woman: feminine.—adv. Wom′anishly.—ns. Wom′anishness; Wom′ankind, Wom′enkind, women taken together: the female sex.—adj. Wom′an-like, like a woman.—n. Wom′anliness.—adj. Wom′anly, like or becoming a woman: feminine.—adv. in the manner of a woman.—ns. Wom′an-post (Shak.), a female messenger; Wom′an-quell′er, a killer of women; Wom′an-suff′rage, the exercise of the electoral franchise by women.—adjs. Wom′an-tired (Shak.), hen-pecked; Wom′an-vest′ed, wearing women's clothes.—Woman of the town, a whore; Woman of the world, a woman of fashion.—Women's rights, the movement of women towards personal and proprietary independence.—Play the woman, to give way to weakness. [A.S. wimman, wífman, a compound of wíf, a woman, man, man.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
woman
1. The First Cause. 2. A being created for the purpose of voting. 3. Any one with an allowance that is occasionally paid, but which can't be collected. 4. A pet, a plaything, a scullion, a thing to die for, or a thing to kill. 5. A being to get rid of or to secure--to run away from, or with, as the case may be. 6. Among the Ancients, a slave, a chattel; among the Moderns, a financial swashbuckler. Synonyms: sphinx, devil, angel, liar, spendthrift.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
WOMAN
An aspiring creature whose political sphere is still slightly flattened at the polls.
Editors Contribution
woman
An adult female human being with a vagina and a pair of breasts.
The woman is amazing and is such a beautiful soul.
Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'woman' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #387
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'woman' in Written Corpus Frequency: #614
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'woman' in Nouns Frequency: #13
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of woman in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of woman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of woman in a Sentence
When life will go over itself, reality will overtake dreams. If you are born, you’re already a winner, in the Universe lap of your precious mother you’ve wrought millions of candidates to life. You’re already the chosen one, you’ve already flight one time. Now God ask you to make your last flight. Conquest your brothers’ brain, conquest Synaptic Paradise and you’ll conquest the eternity, and the real Paradise will open your eyes. A woman’s heart will accompany the passage of time, and it will be the symbol of your rebirth. To save the world, we don’t need an hero, but a good parent. You’re a memory, you’re reborn, the Earth will have you. You’re in my brain, you’ll fly over your brothers’ brain, like the Verb of God. This will be your Paradise, you’ll fly, because flying is believing!
The women encourage each other, there was an ex-military woman in Boston who inspired me. ... I tried taking down a 280-pound man, which wasn't a great idea, but it made for funny pictures.
I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her do it.
The CPAC group invited this woman from France … whose [ grand ] father was a Holocaust denier, and total fascist and a Nazi, there’s this penchant for Nazis now [ among conservatives ] with Charlottesville, and the Neos, and ‘ there are good guys on both sides, ’ and now Marine Le Pen.
Following the detailed analysis of these samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, which has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated both Yulia and Sergei Skripal.
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- امرأةArabic
- ženaCzech
- kvindeDanish
- FrauGerman
- γυναίκαGreek
- virinoEsperanto
- mujerSpanish
- زنPersian
- nainenFinnish
- femmeFrench
- beanIrish
- महिलाHindi
- nőHungarian
- wanitaIndonesian
- donnaItalian
- אישהHebrew
- 女性Japanese
- ಮಹಿಳೆKannada
- 여자Korean
- mulierLatin
- vrouwDutch
- kvinneNorwegian
- kobietaPolish
- mulherPortuguese
- femeieRomanian
- kvinnaSwedish
- பெண்Tamil
- మహిళTelugu
- หญิงThai
- KadınTurkish
- عورتUrdu
- đàn bàVietnamese
- פרויYiddish
- 女人Chinese
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