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| Main Entry: | seaman/woman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sailor |
| Synonyms: | mariner, mate, pirate, sea dog*, seafarer, bluejacket, boater, boatman/woman, deck hand, middy, midshipman/woman, old salt, sailorman/woman, swabbie, yachtsman/woman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female human |
| Synonyms: | daughter, girl, girlfriend, grandmother, matron, mother, spouse, wife, Ms./Miss/Mrs., aunt, gentlewoman, niece, she |
| Antonyms: | man |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
woman, she, her, female, petticoat., feminality, muliebrity; womanhood (adolescence) [more]., womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel., dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs., lady, donna, belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife (marriage) [more]; matronage, matronhood., bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist., nymph, wench, grisette; girl (youth) [more]., [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 |
| Main Entry: | adult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mature, fully grown person |
| Synonyms: | gentleperson, man, person, woman, grownup |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, infant |
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, fellow, individual, man, mortal, party, person, personage, soul, woman, critter, living being, living thing, lower animal, quadruped, varmint |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | damsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maiden |
| Synonyms: | lady, lass, miss, virgin, woman, colleen, lassie, young girl, young woman |
| Main Entry: | daughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female child |
| Synonyms: | girl, offspring, woman, female offspring |
| Main Entry: | earthling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | humankind, man, person, woman, earth dweller, tellurian |
| Main Entry: | grown-up |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adult |
| Synonyms: | Miss, gentleman, lady, man, mister, woman, Mr., Mrs., Ms., grown person, mam |
| Antonyms: | child, youngster |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | animal, being, body, character, creature, earthling, human, individual, man, party, person, personage, soul, woman, living soul, naked ape |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
| Main Entry: | person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, customer, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman, gal, living soul |
| Antonyms: | animal, plant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spouse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one of a married couple |
| Synonyms: | better half*, bride, companion, groom, helpmate, husband, man, mate, partner, roommate, wife, woman |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suitor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who desires another |
| Synonyms: | admirer, beau, boyfriend, cavalier*, date, follower, girlfriend, lover, man, paramour, woman, courter, supplicant, swain, wooer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
| Synonyms: | au pair, cleaning woman, damsel, domestic, factotum, girl, help, miss, nursemaid, woman, biddy, chambermaid, cleaning lady, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, live-in, maidservant |
| Notes: | made means produced by a manufacturing process, while a maid is a female servant or an unmarried girl |
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | body, character, creature, ghost, human being, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, phantom, shadow, spirit, woman, living soul, umbra |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | animal, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood*, growth, human, human being, individual, living, man, mortal, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, survival, vitality, woman, animateness, living being, living thing, metabolism, mortal being, substantiality, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, wildlife |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimacy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | party |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, creature, human, man, mortal, part, person, personage, somebody, woman, someone |
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