Thesaurus results for WOMEN

women

noun

plural of woman

as in ladies

an adult female human being the first woman to become governor of the state

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a female romantic companion wanted to give his woman all the finer things in life

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as in wives

chiefly dialect a female partner in a marriage treated his woman to dinner at a five-star restaurant for their fifteenth wedding anniversary

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Recent Examples of women Hours after the attack, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities found the bodies of three of the suspect's close family members -- two women and a man -- inside of his home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a city about 100 miles northeast of Krakow. — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026 How a group of young Black women helped Democrat Scott Colom do the unthinkable, potentially flipping a deep-red Senate seat. — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026 Hours after the attack, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities found the bodies of three of the suspect’s close family members — two women and a man — inside his home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a city about 90 miles northeast of Krakow. — Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 The fatal victims of the shooting include four women and two men. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2026 Counterterrorism officers searched the shooter's home and found two women and one man dead inside, Prime Minister Tusk told reporters later in the day. — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026 The Alphabet Killer Between 1977 and 1994, Joseph Naso killed at least four women in Contra Costa, Marin and Yuba counties. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026 In 2004, the Union-Tribune reported that two women hiking near Pomerado Road and West Bernardo Drive on May 4, 2004, found remains now known as Baby Doe. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026 Ne-Yo endeared himself to a legion of women bruised by the very men who’d eventually steer R&B into an era of lawlessness. — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026

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After a two-month break, at the top of next year, the ladies will bring their tour to Asia and Australia for 14 more shows.

— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
The first part of this episode goes around and checks in on the ladies in their personal environments, which is fascinating.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of ladies

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The resulting photographs often remind me of Dorothea Lange’s, if Dorothea Lange were a teen girl on Tumblr doing a photo shoot with her girlfriends.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
Big families sit right next to groups of girlfriends and couples on date nights.

— Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of girlfriends

Noun

The species, while similar to its western counterpart, is much bigger with females typically weighing between 33 to 40 pounds, while males weigh 45 to 55 pounds.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026
Three females are dead after a single-vehicle crash on Lodge Freeway in Detroit early Sunday, the Michigan State Police said.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026