woman

Betekenis

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.

Met koppelteken als

wom‧an

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈwʊm.ən/

Etymologie

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.

Zinnen

The old woman had said the same thing .

De oude vrouw had hetzelfde gezegd.

The woman subsequently died from her injuries .

De vrouw stierf vervolgens aan haar verwondingen.