wom·an (w m  n)n. pl. wom·en (w Idioms:  mn) 1. An adult female human. 2. Women considered as a group; womankind: "Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton). 3. An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination: an Englishwoman; congresswoman; a saleswoman. 4. Feminine quality or aspect; womanliness. 5. A female servant or subordinate. (one's) own woman Independent in judgment or action: She has always been her own woman. to a woman Without exception. [Middle English, from Old English wimman, variant of w  fman : wf, woman; see ghwbh- in Indo-European roots + man, person; see man.]wom an·less adj. |
woman [ˈwʊmən]
n pl women [ˈwɪmɪn]
1. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) an adult female human being
2. (modifier) female or feminine a woman politician woman talk
3. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) women collectively; womankind
4. (usually preceded by the) feminine nature or feelings babies bring out the woman in her
5. a female servant or domestic help
6. a man considered as having supposed female characteristics, such as meekness or timidity
7. Informal a wife, mistress, or girlfriend
the little woman Informal one's wife
woman of the streets a prostitute
vb (tr)
1. Rare to provide with women
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"adult female body, woman's body - the body of an adult woman 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 yellow woman - offensive term for an Asian 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 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, prickteaser, 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" divorcee, grass widow - a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband dominatrix - a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) 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 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 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"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" 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 |
woman
noun
1. lady, girl, miss, female, bird (slang), dame (slang), ho (U.S. derogatory slang), sheila (Austral. & N.Z. informal), vrou (S. African), maiden (archaic), chick (slang), maid (archaic), gal (slang), lass, lassie (informal), wench (facetious), adult female, she No woman would ever want to go out with you.
lady man, boy, guy (informal), male, lad, gentleman, bloke (Brit. informal), chap (informal), laddie
lady man, boy, guy (informal), male, lad, gentleman, bloke (Brit. informal), chap (informal), laddie
2. (Informal) girlfriend, girl, wife, partner, mate, lover, squeeze (informal), bride, mistress, spouse, old lady (informal), sweetheart, significant other (U.S. informal), ladylove, bidie-in I know my woman will never leave me.
3. maid, domestic, char (informal), housekeeper, lady-in-waiting, chambermaid, handmaiden, charwoman, maidservant, female servant Catriona had been nagging him to get a woman in to clean once a week.
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]
"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"
"A woman's place is in the home"
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
"A woman's work is never done"
Translations
woman [ˈwʊmən]
A. N (women (pl)) [ˈwɪmɪn] → mujer f
woman is very different from man → la mujer es muy distinta del hombre
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → tengo una mujer que me hace la limpieza
the woman in his life → su compañera
his woman (= lover) → su querida
woman to woman → de mujer a mujer
women's doubles → dobles mpl femeninos
women's football → fútbol m femenino
women's group → grupo m femenino
women's lib → la liberación de la mujer
women's libber → feminista mf
women's movement → movimiento m feminista
she's her own woman → es una mujer muy fiel a sí misma
women's page → sección f femenina
women's refuge → hogar m para mujeres maltratadas
women's rights → derechos mpl de la mujer
women's room (US) → servicio m de señoras
women's studies (Univ) → estudios mpl de la mujer
women's team → equipo m femenino
woman of the town (euph) → prostituta f
it's women's work → es un trabajo de mujeres
a woman of the world → una mujer de mundo
young woman → joven f
see also honest A1
see also little 1 A3
see also old A6
woman is very different from man → la mujer es muy distinta del hombre
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → tengo una mujer que me hace la limpieza
the woman in his life → su compañera
his woman (= lover) → su querida
woman to woman → de mujer a mujer
women's doubles → dobles mpl femeninos
women's football → fútbol m femenino
women's group → grupo m femenino
women's lib → la liberación de la mujer
women's libber → feminista mf
women's movement → movimiento m feminista
she's her own woman → es una mujer muy fiel a sí misma
women's page → sección f femenina
women's refuge → hogar m para mujeres maltratadas
women's rights → derechos mpl de la mujer
women's room (US) → servicio m de señoras
women's studies (Univ) → estudios mpl de la mujer
women's team → equipo m femenino
woman of the town (euph) → prostituta f
it's women's work → es un trabajo de mujeres
a woman of the world → una mujer de mundo
young woman → joven f
see also honest A1
see also little 1 A3
see also old A6
woman [ˈwʊmən] [women] (pl)
modif woman doctor, woman friend, woman teacher
woman doctor n → femme f médecin
woman driver n → conductrice f
woman friend n → amie f
woman-hater [ˈwʊmənheɪtər] n → misogyne m
woman doctor n → femme f médecin
woman driver n → conductrice f
woman friend n → amie f
woman-hater [ˈwʊmənheɪtər] n → misogyne m
woman
woman:
n pl <women> → Frau f, → Frauenzimmer nt (pej hum); (= domestic help) → (Haushalts)hilfe f; (inf) (= girlfriend) → Mädchen nt; (= mistress) → Geliebte f, → Weib nt (pej); a woman’s work is never done (prov) → Frauenhände ruhen nie (Prov); man that is made of woman (Rel) → der Mensch, vom Weib geboren; how like a woman! → typisch Frau!; cleaning woman → Putzfrau f, → Reinmachefrau f; woman is a mysterious creature → Frauen sind geheimnisvolle Wesen; where’s my supper, woman! → Weib, wo ist das Essen!; the little woman (inf: = wife) → die or meine Frau; to run after women → den Frauen nachrennen; that’s woman’s work → das ist Frauenarbeit; women’s talk → Gespräche pl → von Frau zu Frau ? old woman
adj attr woman doctor → Ärztin f; woman lawyer → Anwältin f; woman teacher → Lehrerin f; woman driver → Frau f → am Steuer
woman:
woman-hater
n → Frauenhasser(in) m(f)
woman [ˈwʊmən] n (women (pl)) → donna
young woman → giovane donna
come along, young woman! → su, signorina!
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → ho una donna che viene a fare le pulizie
woman of the world → donna di mondo
the little woman (hum) (wife) → la mogliettina
the woman in his life → la donna della sua vita
women's page (Press) → rubrica femminile
woman [ˈwʊmən] n (women (pl)) → donna
young woman → giovane donna
come along, young woman! → su, signorina!
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → ho una donna che viene a fare le pulizie
woman of the world → donna di mondo
the little woman (hum) (wife) → la mogliettina
the woman in his life → la donna della sua vita
women's page (Press) → rubrica femminile
young woman → giovane donna
come along, young woman! → su, signorina!
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → ho una donna che viene a fare le pulizie
woman of the world → donna di mondo
the little woman (hum) (wife) → la mogliettina
the woman in his life → la donna della sua vita
women's page (Press) → rubrica femminile
woman [ˈwʊmən] n (women (pl)) → donna
young woman → giovane donna
come along, young woman! → su, signorina!
I have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning → ho una donna che viene a fare le pulizie
woman of the world → donna di mondo
the little woman (hum) (wife) → la mogliettina
the woman in his life → la donna della sua vita
women's page (Press) → rubrica femminile
n woman [ˈwumən]
1 an adult human female His sisters are both grown women now; (also adjective ) a woman doctor; women doctors. vrou إمرأه жена žena; ženský kvinde; kvindelig; kvinde- die Frau, weiblich, Frauen... γυναίκα mujer naine زن nainen femme(-) אִישָה औरत žena nő; asszony; ... nő wanita kona donna 女 여자 moteris sieviete wanita; perempuan vrouw; vrouwelijk kvinne; kvinnelig kobieta mulher (de) femeie женщина žena; ženský ženska žena kvinna ผู้หญิง kadın 成年女子 жінка عورت người đàn bà đã có chồng 成年女子（妇女）
2 a female domestic daily helper We have a woman who comes in to do the cleaning. vrou مُساعِدَه чистачка posluhovačka kvindelig hushjælp die Putzfrau οικιακή βοηθός mujer que hace la limpieza koduabiline کلفت naispuolinen kotiavustaja femme de ménage עוֹזֶרֶת בַּיִת काम वाली domaćica, kućna pomoćnica bejárónő - húshjálp, vinnukona donna; cameriera お手伝いさん 하녀, 가정부 namų šeimininkė kalpone; izpalīdze wanita hulp hushjelp pomoc domowa mulher menajeră; femeie de serviciu приходящая домработница posluhovačka pomočnica, postrežnica žena städerska, städtant แม่บ้าน günlük temizlikçi kadın 女佣人 служниця کام کرنے والی bà hầu cận 家庭女佣人
-woman
vrou تُسْتَعْمَل بدلا من كَلِمَة رجُل عندما يكون مُنَفِّذ العَمَل إمرأه -ша -ka, -yně -kvinde die...-frau κυρία (ως β΄ συνθ.) mujer nais- رئیسه -nainen femme -אִישָה जब किसी पद पर कोई महिला हो तो पदनाम में उपयोग किया जाता है oznaka za ženu na nekoj funkciji -nő, -assszony wanita -kona donna 女性－ 여자- priekšsēdētāja wanita {#169}vrouw, {#169}ster -kvinne p.ex. mulher-polícia femeie... женщина- -ka, -yňa ženska -žena kvinna, el. utan motsv. i sv.: ordförande บางครั้งสามารถใช้แทนคำผู้ชายได้ hanım/kadın... 女... жінка عورت ذات phụ nữ 女...
n womanhood
the state of being a woman She will reach womanhood in a few years' time. vrouwees أنوثَه، نَسَوِيَّه женственост ženství det at være kvinde Stellung der erwachsenen Frau γυναικεία ωριμότητα condición de mujer naiseiga زنانگی naiseus féminité נָשִיוּת नारीत्व zrelost žene asszonnyá érés kedewasaan wanita kvendómur, það að vera kona (l'essere donna) 女であること 여자다운 성격 moters brandos amžius, moteriškumas pieaugušas sievietes stāvoklis; sievietība menjadi wanita dewasa vrouwelijke staat det å være voksen kvinne wiek dojrzały (u kobiety), kobiecość condição feminina feminitate женская зрелость ženstvo, ženskosť ženskost ženstvenost kvinnlighet, vuxen ålder ความเป็นผู้หญิง; สภาวะของการเป็นผู้หญิง kadınlık 女性成年期，女性特質 жіноча зрілість نسوانیت nữ tính 女子的成年期
nouns womankind, womenkind [ˈwimin-]
women generally. vroue النِّساء، الجِنْس اللطيف жените ženy kvinderne; kvindekønnet die Frauen (pl.) οι γυναίκες las mujeres naissugu جنس زن؛ بانوان naiset les femmes הַנָשִים नारीजाति ženstvenost a nők kaum wanita kvenkynið, konur yfirleitt le donne 女性 여자들, 여성 moterys sievietes kaum wanita het vrouwelijke geslacht kvinnekjønnet; spinnesida ród niewieści sexo feminino femeile женская половина ženy ženske žene kvinnor[], kvinnosläktet ผู้หญิงโดยทั่วไป; เพศหญิง kadınlar, kadın milleti 一般婦女 жінки, жіноцтво فرقہ نسواں nữ giới 妇女们，女子们
adj womanly
(showing qualities) natural or suitable to a woman a womanly figure; womanly charm. vroulik نِسَوي، أنثوي، مُتَعَلِّق بالمَرأه женски ženský kvindelig weiblich γυναικείος femenino naiselik زنانه naisellinen féminin נָשִי नारी-सुलभ ženstven női(es) kewanitaan kven-, kvenlegur femminile 女らしい 여자답게 moteriškas sievišķīgs sifat kewanitaan vrouwelijk kvinnelig kobiecy feminino feminin женственный ženský ženski ženstvena kvinnlig ซึ่งมีคุณสมบัติที่ดีของผู้หญิง kadına yaraşır, kadınca 具有或展現女性特質的 жіночний, ніжний عورتوں کے صفات رکھنے والی như đàn bà 女子气质的
n womanliness
vroulikheid نِسَوِيَّه، أنثويَّه женственост ženskost kvindelighed die Weiblichkeit θηλυκότητα feminidad naiselikkus زن مانند ی naisellisuus féminité נָשִיוּת नारी-सुलभता ženstvenost nőiesség sifat kewanitaan kvenleiki femminilità 女らしさ 여자다움 moteriškumas sievišķīgums tiada sifat kewanitaan vrouwelijkheid kvinnelighet kobiecość feminilidade feminitate женственность ženskosť ženskost ženstvenost kvinnlighet ความเป็นหญิง; การมีคุณสมบัติที่ดีของผู้หญิง kadınsı davranış 女性氣質 жіночість نسوانیت tình cảm đàn bà 女性气质
n pl womenfolk [ˈwimin-]
female people, especially female relatives. vrouens النِّسْوَه، نِساء الأسْرَه жени ženy kvindelige slægtninge die Frauen (pl.) οι γυναίκες της οικογένειας (πληθ.) mujeres naispere زنان؛ جماعت زتان naisväki les femmes נָשִים महिलाएं žene nők kerabat wanita, kaum wanita kvenfólk le donne 女性達 여성, 부인 moterys, moteriškoji pusė sievietes; radinieces; ģimenes sievietes kaum wanita vrouwen kvinnfolk, kvinner kobiety mulheres femeile женская часть семьи ženy ženstvo, sorodnice ženski rođaci kvinnfolk, kvinnor ผู้หญิงทั่วไป; กลุ่มผู้หญิง kadınlar 婦女們，尤指女眷 жінки, жіноцтво مستورات giới nữ 妇女们
woman → امرأة žena kvinde Frau γυναίκα mujer nainen femme žena donna 女性 여자 vrouw kvinne kobieta mulher женщина kvinna ผู้หญิง kadın đàn bà 女人
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