Woman

  • 21woman — wom|an W1S1 [ˈwumən] n plural women [ˈwımın] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(female person)¦ 2¦(any woman)¦ 3 businesswoman/spokeswoman etc 4 another woman/the other woman 5 be your own woman 6¦(partner)¦ 7¦(form of address)¦ 8¦(servant)¦ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 22woman — womanless, adj. /woom euhn/, n., pl. women /wim in/, v., adj. n. 1. the female human being (distinguished from man). 2. an adult female person. 3. a female attendant to a lady of rank. 4. a wife. 5. the nature, c …

    Universalium

  • 23woman — noun plural women / wImIn/ 1 FEMALE (C) an adult female person: I was talking to a woman I met on the flight. | married women | a woman priest/driver etc: How long will it be until we have a woman President? | women s clothes/organization etc:… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 24woman —    This is used by a parish priest to his housekeeper throughout Bless me Father, by Neil Boyd, but he does it only when no one else is present and she is well aware that he is being mockingly severe with her.    Modern husbands use the term in a …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 25woman — wom|an [ wumən ] (plural wom|en [ wımın ] ) noun *** count an adult female person: We need more women in government. a. only before noun used for saying that someone who does something is a woman: the first woman prime minister a study of women… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 26woman —    by Rosi Braidotti   Like all formations of identity in Deleuze s thought, woman is a molar entity that pertains to and sustains the political economy of a majority. However, in a much broader phallogocentric historical system woman is also… …

    The Deleuze dictionary

  • 27woman —    by Rosi Braidotti   Like all formations of identity in Deleuze s thought, woman is a molar entity that pertains to and sustains the political economy of a majority. However, in a much broader phallogocentric historical system woman is also… …

    The Deleuze dictionary

  • 28woman */*/*/ — UK [ˈwʊmən] / US noun Word forms woman : singular woman plural women UK [ˈwɪmɪn] / US [countable] an adult female person a smiling young woman with dark hair We need more women in parliament. a) [only before noun] used for saying that someone who …

    English dictionary

  • 29woman — see a woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be a woman and a ship ever want mending a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle a woman’s place is in the home a woman’s work is never done …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 30-woman — a combining form of woman: chairwoman; forewoman; spokeswoman. Usage. Feminine compounds ending in WOMAN are equivalent to the masculine compounds in MAN. When the person referred to is a woman, the feminine form is often, but not always, used:… …

    Useful english dictionary