woman

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. An adult female human.
2. (collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.
3. A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
4. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
5. A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
6. A female attendant or servant.

Verb

1. To staff with female labor.
2. (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
3. (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
4. (transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

Sinonieme

female

♀️

girl

👧

lady

wife

👰‍♀️

adult female

person

🧑‍🦱

female person

man

👨

daughter

damsel

mistress

dame

women

feminine

♀️

maiden

adult

🧑

womanhood

Miss

fair sex

womankind

mother

👩‍🍼

char

maid

old woman

beautiful woman

charwoman

fille

bride

cleaning woman

young girl

cleaning lady

father-in-law

she

👩

womanliness

miss

queen

👸

young woman

hag

girlfriend

broad

gal

madam

matron

wench

friend

Frenchman

concubine

femme

colleen

feme

Vertalings

femme

👩

mujer

👩

Frau

👩

donna

👩

mulher

👩

vrouw

👩

γυναίκα

mulier

👩

dona

👩

kadın

👩

femina

👩

Weib

👩

signora

jin

👩

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈwʊm.ən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: womman

Geërf van Old English: wīfmann

Verwante met Engels: wife

Verwante met Engels: man

Verwante met Skots: woman

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Wieuwmoanske

In summary

From Middle English womman, from earlier wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
Further information on vocalic development
The current pronunciation of the first vowel of the singular began to appear in western England in the 13th century under the rounding influence of the w, though the older pronunciation with /i/ (→ modern /ɪ/) remained in use into the 15th century. Although the vowel of the plural was sometimes also altered to /u/ (→ modern /ʊ/) beginning in the 14th century, the pronunciation with /ɪ/ ultimately won out there, possibly under the influence of pairs like foot–feet. However, some speakers (especially of New Zealand English or South African English) have either retained or reinnovated the pronunciation of the plural with /ʊ/. The modern spelling women for the plural is due to influence of the singular; it is attested from the 15th century.
For a time in the 16th and 17th centuries, the pronunciation of the singular sometimes drifted even further back towards /uː/ or /ɔː~oː/ (→ modern /oʊ~əʊ/) and the plural sometimes drifted even further forward towards /iː/, leading to comparisons of the words to "woe man" or "we men".)

Sinne

The old woman had said the same thing .

An older man is walking along the street in front of a woman .

And he looked out over the desert that had brought him to the woman he loved .

A woman sits on a piece of art furniture .

A woman wearing a white glove peers over the crowd .

The woman subsequently died from her injuries .