woman

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Concepts

femme

dame

madame

épouse

jeune fille

fille

gonzesse

meuf

nana

bonne femme

femelle

pute

sexe féminin

femmes

de sexe féminin

le sexe féminin

les femmes

maîtresse

sa femme

rite

deuil

Julie

féminité

carboniser

femme de ménage

nettoyeuse

sportif

tout

fam

nénette

petite

demoiselle

sirène

lady

amant

maitresse

maïtresse

belle-de-nuit

catin

cocotte

entremetteuse

fille de joie

fille des rues

fille publique

grue

professionnelle

prostituée

putain

putasse

péripatéticienne

radasse

salopard

saloparde

Mme

bougreesse

conjointe

epouse

mariée

Madame

damoche

demoiselle noble

maquerelle

tenancière de bordel

Coupé comme

wom‧an

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwʊm.ən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English womman, 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").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.

Phrases

The old woman had said the same thing .

La vieille femme avait dit la même chose.

The woman subsequently died from her injuries .

La femme est décédée par la suite de ses blessures.