Definitions for women

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women wom·en

Spelling: [wim-in]

IPA: /ˈwɪm ɪn/

Women is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in women (emnow).

Definitions for women

noun

1. plural of woman.
2. the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
3. an adult female person.
4. a female attendant to a lady of rank.
5. a wife.
6. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness.
7. a sweetheart or paramour; mistress.
8. a female employee or representative:
9. a female person who cleans house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper:
10. women collectively:
11. a range of sizes usually from 38 to 44 for garments that fit larger than average women.
12. a garment in this size range.
13. the department or section of a store where these garments are sold.

Idioms

1. be one's own woman, (of females) to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence; be independent.

adjective

1. of women; womanly.
2. female:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into the company of a woman.
2. to equip or staff with women.
3. Obsolete. to cause to act or yield like a woman.

Origin of women

before 900; Middle English womman, wimman, Old English wīfman, equivalent to wīf female + man human being; see wife, man¹

Examples for women

That matron, like most Grecian women, was ignorant of her own written language.

You may have noticed that night at the Oldakers'—well, women, Mr. Bines, are uncertain.

In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.

Her house is the only one in all Greece where women are allowed to be present at entertainments.

Not only millionaires; but also painters and novelists and men and women of varied distinction.

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

I am bound to him by ties stronger than usually bind the hearts of women.

Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.