Definition of man/woman of few words
:a man/woman who does not talk very much
- My grandfather was a man of few words.
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man
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: an individual human
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: a man belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation)
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: husband
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: to supply with people (as for service)
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: to station members of a ship's crew at
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: to serve in the force or complement of
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woman
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: an adult female person
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: a woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation)
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: womankind
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few
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: not many persons or things
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: consisting of or amounting to only a small number
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: at least some but indeterminately small in number
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: a small number of units or individuals
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: a special limited number
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: something that is said
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: talk, discourse
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: the text of a vocal musical composition
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: speak
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: to express in words : phrase
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