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woman of her word

Variant of word

noun

    1. a speech sound, or series of them, serving to communicate meaning and consisting of at least one base morpheme with or without prefixes or suffixes; unit of language between the morpheme and the sentence
    2. a letter or group of letters representing such a unit of language, written or printed usually in solid or hyphenated form
  1. a brief expression, statement, remark, etc.: a word of advice
  2. a promise, affirmation, or assurance: to give a person one's word
  3. news; information; tidings: no word from home; what's the good word?
    1. a password or signal
    2. a command, order, or authorization: waiting for the word to go ahead
    1. talk; speech
    2. the lyrics, text, libretto, etc. of a musical composition that is sung
  4. a quarrel; dispute; argument
  5. Archaic a saying; proverb
  6. Comput. a basic unit of storage in a memory, consisting of a certain number of bits

transitive verb

to express in words; phrase

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