woman

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

women

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

woman

past (v2)

womaned

past participle (v3)

womaned

present participle

womaning

3rd person singular

womans

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.An adult female human.

   • During World War II, many women worked as blacksmiths in the shipbuilding industry and found they liked the challenging, independent work.
   • But of course Britain since 1979 has had a woman prime minister, while no woman has ever come near to being president of the United States.
   • But this woman is a nice German woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.

2. 2.All female humans collectively; womankind.

   • Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
   • For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

3. 3.A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

   • At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.
   • Sir, have you ever served with any Bajoran women?
   • One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.

4. 4.A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

   • And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To staff with female labor.

   • Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
   • The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
   • Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent,^([sic]) said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned) by able drivers would be unable to move.

2. 2.To make effeminate or womanish.

   • I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.

3. 3.To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

   • And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd.

4. 4.To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

Overall

Very common· #126

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Common

Antonyms

• man