'Woman' definitions:

Definition of 'woman'

From: WordNet
noun
An adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" [syn: woman, adult female] [ant: adult male, man]
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" [ant: man]
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" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]
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" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]

Definition of 'Woman'

From: GCIDE
  • Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
  • 1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him see me woman'd." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Womanhead

Definition of 'Woman'

From: GCIDE
  • Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. Women. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. w[imac]fmann, w[imac]mmann; w[imac]f woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22. [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. --J. Ledyard. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The female part of the human race; womankind. [1913 Webster]
  • Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Woman'

From: Easton
  • Woman was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam. 2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1 Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16).
  • The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.

Synonyms of 'woman'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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