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40 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. woman
  2. woman chaser
  3. woman-child
  4. woman-grown
  5. woman hater
  6. woman of letters
  7. woman of the bedchamber
  8. woman of the house
  9. woman of the street
  10. woman of the town
  11. woman of the world
  12. woman-post
  13. woman suffrage
  14. woman-suffragist
  15. woman's man
  16. woman's rights
  17. woman's-tongue tree
  18. battered woman syndrome
  19. bedchamber woman
  20. body woman
  21. bottom woman
  22. cleaning woman
  23. fancy woman
  24. lady's woman
  25. little woman
  26. man-woman
  27. medicine woman
  28. necessary woman
  29. new woman
  30. old-man-and-woman

wom·an

noun \ˈwu̇-mən, especially Southern ˈwō- or ˈwə-\

: an adult female human being

: a woman who has a specified job or position

: all women thought of as a group

plural wom·en \ˈwi-mən\

Full Definition of WOMAN

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 dialect :  wife
b :  mistress
c :  girlfriend 2
— woman adjective
— wom·an·less \-ləs\ adjective
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Examples of WOMAN

  1. She was a shy and awkward girl who grew up to become a confident and beautiful woman.
  2. She is a grown woman.
  3. The store sells shoes for both men and women.
  4. Do they have a cleaning woman?

Origin of WOMAN

Middle English, from Old English wīfman, from wīf woman, wife + man human being, man
First Known Use: before 12th century

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Synonyms
female, lady, skirt [slang]

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