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noun
- 1. an adult female human being: "a drawing of a young woman" Similar
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WOMAN definition: 1. an adult female human being: 2. an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may…. Learn more.
A woman is an adult female human. [a] [2] [3] Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent ). [4] Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause.
1. a. : an adult female person. b. : a woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation)usually used in combination. councilwoman. 2. : womankind. 3. : distinctively feminine nature : womanliness. 4. : a woman who is a servant or personal attendant. 5. a. chiefly dialectal : wife.
Woman definition: an adult female person.. See examples of WOMAN used in a sentence.
SYNONYMS woman, female, lady are nouns referring to adult human beings who are biologically female; that is, capable of bearing offspring. woman is the general term. It is neutral, lacking either favorable or unfavorable implication, and is the most commonly used of the three: a wealthy woman; a woman of strong character, of unbridled appetites.
Definition of woman noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. women as a class. synonyms: fair sex, womanhood. see more. noun. a human female employed to do housework. “I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write” synonyms: char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman. see more. noun.