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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 female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. [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. b. : mistress. c.
noun. an adult female person. synonyms: adult female. see more. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Definition of woman noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. countable noun A1. A woman is an adult female human being. ...a young Lithuanian woman named Dayva. ...men and women over 75 years old. ...women prisoners. 2. uncountable noun. You can refer to women in general as woman. ...the oppression of woman. 3. countable noun [supplement NOUN]
Woman definition: an adult female person.. See examples of WOMAN used in a sentence.
WOMAN definition: 1. an adult female person: 2. the state of being a woman. Learn more.
1. (Anthropology & Ethnology) an adult female human being. 2. (modifier) female or feminine: a woman politician; woman talk. 3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) women collectively; womankind.
the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex: the female sex, women. Similarly †the devout sex, †the woman sex, the second sex. In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the weak sex).
