[syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
--Daniel.
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2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.
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3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him
see me woman'd." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. Women. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
wimman, wifmon, AS. w[imac]fmann, w[imac]mmann; w[imac]f
woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
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1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
person.
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Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22.
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I have observed among all nations that the women
ornament themselves more than the men; that,
wherever found, they are the same kind, civil,
obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay
and cheerful, timorous and modest. --J. Ledyard.
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2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
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Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
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3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your
message." --Shak.
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Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
woman
n 1: an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman
kept house while the man hunted" [syn: woman, adult
female] [ant: adult male, man]
2: a female person who plays a significant role (wife or
mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he
was faithful to his woman" [ant: man]
3: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean
the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day
while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
cleaning lady, woman]
4: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
"woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on
the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
woman
A replacement for the Unix man documentation
browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on
386BSD, OSF, Apollo Domain/OS, BSD, HP-UX, IBM
RS-6000, Irix, Linux, Solaris, Sony NEWS, SunOS,
Ultrix, Unicos.
Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul
1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name
woman-1.157.
FTP USC, USA
(ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/).
FTP Imperial, UK
(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/).
(1995-03-21)
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
WOMAN, n.
An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.
Balthasar Pober