woman

noun

An adult female human.

(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.

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

A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)

A female attendant or servant.

verb

To staff with female labor.

(transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.

(transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

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

Synonyms for woman

womanhoodn mann womenn womankindn girln ladyn wifen donnan femme womenfolk feme

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