Woman
Woman , noun
[Old English woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, Anglo-Saxon wīfmann, wīmmann; wīf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
1.
An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
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.
2.
The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
3.
A female attendant or servant.
By her woman I sent your message.
Collocations (1)
Woman hater , one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. — Swift
Woman , transitive verb
1.
To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. — Daniel
2.
To make effeminate or womanish. [Rare] — Shakespeare
3.
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [Rare]
To have him see me woman'd.