woman

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Meaning

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.

female

adult female

female person

beautiful woman

cleaning woman

young girl

cleaning lady

young woman

fille

beautiful girl

damoiselle

dutch

🇳🇱/🇨🇼/🇸🇽/🇧🇶

female servant

female sex

Frau

his wife

venus

old-fashioned woman

sentimental woman

Ms.

personal attendant

eldest daughter

grown woman

damosel

brother’s wife

fair maiden

pretty maid

older woman

Dama

tea horner

damozel

dona

donah

Frequency

Hyphenated as

wom‧an

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwʊm.ən/

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.