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- Dictionarywom·an/ˈwo͝omən/
noun
- 1. an adult female human being: "a drawing of a young woman" Similar
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1. a. : an adult female person. b. : a woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation)usually used in combination. councilwoman. 2. : womankind. 3. : distinctively feminine nature : womanliness. 4. : a woman who is a servant or personal attendant. 5. a. chiefly dialectal : wife.
WOMAN definition: 1. an adult female human being: 2. an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may…. Learn more.
Woman, female, lady are nouns referring to an adult female human being, one paradigm of gender and biological sex for adult human beings. Woman is the general term. It is neutral, lacking either favorable or unfavorable implication, and is the most commonly used of the three: a wealthy woman; a woman of strong character, of unbridled appetites.
A woman is an adult female human. [a] [2] [3] Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent ). [4] Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause.
Definitions of woman. noun. an adult female person. synonyms: adult female. see more. noun. women as a class. synonyms: fair sex, womanhood. see more. noun. a human female employed to do housework. “I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write” synonyms: char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman. see more. noun.
1. countable noun A1. A woman is an adult female human being. ...a young Lithuanian woman named Dayva. ...men and women over 75 years old. ...women prisoners. 2. uncountable noun. You can refer to women in general as woman. ...the oppression of woman. 3. countable noun [supplement NOUN]
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.
Definition of woman noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
WOMAN definition: 1. an adult female person: 2. the state of being a woman. Learn more.
an average or ordinary person, either male or female Politicians often don't understand the views of the man on the street. See woman in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: woman. Definition of woman noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
