Definitions for woman

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woman wom·an

Spelling: [woo m-uh n]

IPA: /ˈwʊm ən/

Woman 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 52 anagrams from letters in woman (amnow).

Definitions for woman

noun

1. the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
2. an adult female person.
3. a female attendant to a lady of rank.
4. a wife.
5. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness.
6. a sweetheart or paramour; mistress.
7. a female employee or representative:
8. a female person who cleans house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper:
9. women collectively:

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 woman

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

Examples for woman

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

Yea, like a woman, who deems a man safest when he is a tailor, or a perfumer.

No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.

If that man was a woman he'd be a warm neighbourhood gossip.

A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

It had been all the same to Mrs. Bines for as many years as a woman of fifty can remember.

Some other men and a woman were scanning the hoisting machinery with superior looks.

Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.

While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.