Woman Definition

wo͝omən
women
noun
women
The female human being.
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An adult female human being.
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Women collectively.
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An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination.
An Englishwoman; congresswoman; a saleswoman.
American Heritage Medicine
A female servant.
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adjective
Of or characteristic of a woman or women; feminine.
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Being an adult human female.
A woman scientist.
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Synonyms:
affix
Woman of a (specified) kind, in a (specified) activity, etc.
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verb

To staff with female labor.

Wiktionary

To make effeminate or womanish.

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To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

To have him see me woman'd. "” Shakespeare.
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suffix

Someone (implied female) who is an expert in an area; e.g. horsewoman, sportswoman.

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Someone (implied female) who is employed or holds a position in an area; e.g newswoman, policewoman.

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Someone (implied female) who has special characteristics relating to an area, e.g. bogeywoman, superwoman.

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idiom
(one's) own woman
  • Independent in judgment or action:

    She has always been her own woman.

American Heritage
to a woman
  • Without exception.
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Other Word Forms of Woman

Noun

Singular:
woman
Plural:
women

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Woman

  • (one's) own woman
  • to a woman

Origin of Woman

  • From Middle English woman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wÄ«fmann (“woman, female servant", literally “female person, female human being"), equivalent to wife +"Ž man. Compare Dutch vrouwmens (“wife", literally “woman-person"). Compare also West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl")(from frou and minske, literally "woman human-being"), Dutch vrouwspersoon (“woman"), German Weibsperson (“female person"), and dialectal German Fraumensch ("woman", literally "woman human-being").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English wimman variant of wīfman wīf woman man person man

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the noun woman.

    From Wiktionary

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