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noun

Woman n. (pl. women)

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."

The female part of the human race; womankind. "Man is destined to be a prey to woman."

A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your message."

Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist.

verb

Woman v. t.

To act the part of a woman in; with indefinite it.

To make effeminate or womanish. (R.)

To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. (R.) "To have him see me woman'd."

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Etymology of 'Woman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woman" Quotes from Famous Books

... final long and agonizing wait in the yards. That was the last straw—to be so near the goal and yet helplessly stranded just out of reach. Wishing to verify her own calculations, Betty leaned forward and asked a friendly-looking, gray-haired woman in the seat ahead if she knew just how long it would take to go from the Forty-second ...

— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde

... for surprise, or at least for speculation. Her idea would rather have been that Mrs. Stringham would have looked at her hard—her sketch of the grounds of her long, independent excursion showing, she could feel, as almost cynically superficial. Yet the dear woman so failed, in the event, to avail herself of any right of criticism that it was sensibly tempting, for an hour, to wonder if Kate Croy had been playing perfectly fair. Hadn't she possibly, from motives of the highest ...

— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James

... assured us of their own courage, and of the warlike propensities, power, wealth, and general superiority of that part of the universe which is so happy as to be represented by them, that, whatever other useful impression they have made, they insure our never forgetting the proverb about the woman who talks of her virtue. South Carolina, in particular, if she has hitherto failed in the application of her enterprise to manufacturing purposes of a more practical kind, has always been able to match every yard of printed cotton from the North with a ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various

... decided—that it was time to turn home. No game can last forever. So we returned, and on our last night at sea we were rammed and sunk. Naturally that spoilt—or shall I say somewhat precipitated?—my plans. We were saved, the two of us together. And then was started that scandalous report of the woman on the yacht." Again the laughter sounded in his voice. "You see, mon ami, how small a spark can start a conflagration. In self-defence I had to invent something, and I invented it quickly. I said she was Larpent's daughter. I wonder if you would have thought ...

— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell

... returned to Hirado. The castle was taken by assault on the 12th of April, 1638, after a siege which had lasted one hundred and two days, and about seven months from the breaking out of the rebellion. By special orders from Yedo the insurgents captured in the castle were to the last man, woman, and child put to death.(221) The father of Shiro, the young leader, was crucified, and Shiro himself was decapitated, and his head exposed for seven days on the great pier at Nagasaki. The daimyo, ...

— Japan • David Murray

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