woman

Meaning

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

woman

female

girl

lady

wife

adult female

person

female person

daughter

man

damsel

dame

mistress

feminine

maiden

women

adult

mother

womankind

beautiful woman

womanhood

fair sex

char

charwoman

old woman

Miss

maid

broad

hag

bride

young girl

queen

gal

womanliness

girlfriend

young woman

cleaning lady

cleaning woman

she

miss

father-in-law

matron

wench

fille

madam

sheila

old-fashioned woman

sentimental woman

grown woman

eldest daughter

beautiful girl

belle

fair maiden

goddess

pretty maid

human being

soul

female servant

personal attendant

bedfellow

dona

donah

dutch

feme

petticoat

split

trim

girl-friend

intriguing

quarrelsome

ladies

his wife

venus

ritual

mourning

housewife

jade

cleaner

janitor

concubine

womenfolk

older woman

tea horner

ladyship

womanly

totty

female sex

her

Frenchman

brother’s wife

baby girl

batrachian

colleen

emancipatrix

girlie

guardienne

lassie

lass

little girl

missy

salientian

translatrix

babe

damoiselle

damosel

damozel

demoiselle

friend

mademoiselle

mesdemoiselles

sexpot

signorina

lover

comfort girl

fornicatrix

harlot

ho

hooker

hustler

lady of the night

oiran

prostitute

prosty

puta

slut

stem siren

streetwalker

strumpet

trollop

whore

Frau

Mrs

Mrs.

Ms

Ms.

femme

little woman

missus

signora

spouse

squaw

wifey

Dama

madame

marm

milady

Hyphenated as

wom‧an

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwʊm.ən/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

The old woman had said the same thing .

The woman subsequently died from her injuries .