| Main Entry: | woman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female human |
Synonyms: |
Ms./Miss/Mrs., aunt, daughter, gentlewoman, girl, girlfriend, grandmother, matron, mother, niece, she, spouse, wife |
Antonyms: |
man |
| Concept: | Woman. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
woman, she, her, female, petticoat., feminality, muliebrity; womanhood (adolescence)., womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex., dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs., lady, donna, belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife (marriage); matronage, matronhood., bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist., nymph, wench, grisette; girl (youth)., [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean, henhussy, molly coddle, muff, old woman., [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen., gynecaeum.
-adjectives
female, she; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic.
-phrases
"a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; "a lovely lady garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan [Goethe]; "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es de vidrio la mujer; "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope]; "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et mutabile semper femina
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Antonyms: |
man |
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