Definition of Woman

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woman
n. adult female; female human being; female spouse (Informal); collective womankind; female person who plays an important part in the life of a specific notorious man; girlfriend, female lover (Informal)
v. staff with women; make womanish, make effeminate
adj. female (e.g.: a woman bus driver; a woman dentist); like a woman, womanly; of woman

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Woman Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Woman Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Woman
(v. t.)
To make effeminate or womanish.
  
(v. t.)
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
  
(v. t.)
To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
  
(n.)
The female part of the human race; womankind.
  
(n.)
An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
  
(n.)
A female attendant or servant.
  

WordNet 2.0
woman

Noun
1. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
(synonym) adult female
(antonym) man, adult male
(hypernym) female, female person
(hyponym) Eve
(part-meronym) adult female body, woman's body
(derivation) feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
2. women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"
(synonym) womanhood
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(member-holonym) womankind
3. a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet"
(synonym) charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady
(hypernym) cleaner
4. 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"
(antonym) man
(hypernym) female, female person
(derivation) philander, womanize, womanise
(classification) colloquialism

The Devil's Dictionary
WOMAN
Woman, (n.)

An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety ("felis pugnans"), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.

Balthasar Pober
  

The Phrase Finder
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Meaning
A feminist slogan.

Behind every great man there's a great woman
Origin
Feminist slogan.

Frailty, thy name is woman
Origin
From Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hell has no fury like a woman scorned
Origin
William Congreve. 1670-1729. 'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.'

Australian Slang
All over the place like a mad woman's knitting
out of control

All over the place like a mad woman's lunch box
out of control

All over the place like a mad woman's piss
out of control

All over the place like a mad woman's washing
out of control

Axe woman
woman who plays guitar

Front woman
woman who is the lead singer or key person of a band

If it was raining bikini clad women, smb. would be washed down the gutter with a truck driver
smb. is really unlucky

Like a mad woman's breakfast
very messy; all over the place

Old woman
1. one's wife; 2. one's mother; 3. woman or man who is pedantic or tends to fuss, gossip, etc.


Up and down like a mad woman's custard
something which is "all over the place", i.e. a rough track

Up and down like a mad woman's shit
something which is "all over the place", i.e. a rough track

Woman's troubles
gynaecological problem(s)

Shakespeare Words
WOMAN
TIRED: hen-pecked WONDERED: marvellously gifted

Lexicon of Thieves' Cant
Woman
mort, mot

hEnglish - advanced version

Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
woman
b(h)ean (pl. mná) f.
old woman, hag: cailleach, treanbhean, caillich

English Phonetics

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Anlladferch
Anlladferch = n. a wanton woman

Benyw
Benyw = n. female; a woman

Blodwraig
Blodwraig = n. meal woman

Cymraes
Cymraes = n. Welsh woman

Dynan
Dynan = n. a little woman; a lass

Dynes
Dynes = n. a woman, a female

Gweinyddferch
Gweinyddferch = n. a serving woman

Gwrach
Gwrach = n. a hag, an old woman, a witch

Gwrachanes
Gwrachanes = a little old woman

Gwraig
Gwraig = n. a woman; wife

Gwreigen
Gwreigen = n. a little woman

Gwreignith
Gwreignith = n. a little woman

Henwrach
Henwrach = n. an old woman

Llafren
Llafren = n. a large buttocked one, a squabby woman

Llances
Llances = n. a young woman

Llebanes
Llebanes = n. a ghastly woman

Marchoges
Marchoges = n. a riding woman; a female chevalier

Merch
Merch = n. a girl, a woman, a daughter

Pladres
Pladres = n. a flaunting woman

Poburies
Poburies = n. a baking woman

Ysgien
Ysgien = n. a slicer; a cymetar; turner's lathe; tall woman


Woman Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

Rakefet
Woman
Woman In philosophy, symbolizes the mother aspect of nature or feminine characteristic of the universe always found in the triads of Father-Mother-Son (changed in the Christian scheme to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- the Holy Spirit in primitive Christianity always being considered feminine). From time immemorial it has been customary to associate primordial spirit-substance, later becoming matter, with the cosmic feminine principle represented symbolically by a horizontal line); and spirit has always been associated with the masculine principle (represented by a vertical line); but the words feminine and masculine are merely borrowed from human beings, and the characteristics of originating cosmic principles were far better expressed by pairs of opposites such as negative and positive.
In cosmogenesis, the feminine principle is represented by the waters of space or great deep, often called the womb of nature. From this figure of speech was born the conception found in some ancient cosmogonies, such as the Hebrew, of the ark, containing all the germs of lives of a universe and pictured as resting or moving on the cosmic waters. Another symbol for the feminine principle was that of the lotus, which likewise rests upon the water, finally rising above it when it blossoms. One symbol of the universe in germ before any aspect of manifestation occurs is the matripadma or closed "mother lotus," before the cosmic blossom has been quickened by spirit into expanding into becoming the universe. It is also referred to as devamatri (the divine mother), the matrix from which all the suns and planets were born.
In the cosmogony of the Hebrew Qabbalah, the first Sephirah which emanates from latent divinity is at times represented as feminine; yet when this feminine emanation becomes creative it is then represented as conjoining masculine traits with its own, so that at this stage it is envisaged as masculine-feminine. This first spiritual emanation, emanating from itself the next phase of cosmogonical production, is termed the Shechinah, the mother of all the successively emanated Sephiroth. Thus the Shechinah is an echo of archaic Hindu cosmogonic speculation, corresponding to pradhana or prakriti.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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.


Woman Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
woman
femina, mulier


Woman Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Woman
kosu

English - Klingon
woman
n. be'

small woman
n. be'Hom


Woman Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

A Basic Guide to ASL
Woman
The thumb of the right 'A' hand moves down along the line of the right jaw, from ear almost to chin. This outlines the string used to tie ladies' bonnets in olden days. This is a root sign to modify many others. The downturned right hand then moves up to a point above the head to indicate the relative height.

Female (woman)
The right 'A' hand's thumb is brought down along the side of the right jaw, from the ear to almost the chin. (This outlines the string used to tie ladies' bonnets in olden days.)


Woman Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Phobia
Androphobia
Fear of men

Caligynephobia
Fear of beautiful women

Gynephobia
Fear of women
Also known as Gynophobia

Heterophobia
Fear of the opposite sex
Also known as Sexophobia

Venustraphobia
Fear of beautiful women

Dream Symbols
Woman
Female aspect of dreamer, emotions, mother, self (if female dreamer), that particular woman (if known to the dreamer). In this case is the woman playing a positive or negative role. What positive or negative traits does that person display in reality. The dream is asking the dreamer to adopt the same positive traits and / or drop the negative traits.


Woman Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Woman

A woman is a female human. The term woman (irregular plural: women) usually is used 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".


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