woman

Definitions


[ˈwʊmən], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an adult female human being
(e.g: a drawing of a young woman)


Phrases:
- a woman's woman
- as — as the next woman
- be someone's woman
- be woman enough to do
- my good woman
- separate the women from the girls
- the little woman
- the woman on the street
- woman about town
- woman of God
- woman of honour
- woman of letters
- woman of the cloth
- woman of the house
- woman of the match
- woman of the moment
- woman of the streets
- woman to woman

Origin:
Old English wīfmon, -man(see wife, man), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being wife




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