Woman Definition
- cleaning lady
- cleaning woman
- char
- charwoman
- fair-sex
- womanhood
- adult female
- serving lady
- maid
- cook
- laundress
- charlady (British)
- housekeeper
- companion
- washerwoman
Someone (implied female) who is an expert in an area; e.g. horsewoman, sportswoman.
Someone (implied female) who is employed or holds a position in an area; e.g newswoman, policewoman.
Someone (implied female) who has special characteristics relating to an area, e.g. bogeywoman, superwoman.
- Independent in judgment or action:
She has always been her own woman.
- Without exception.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Woman
- (one's) own woman
- to a woman
Origin of Woman
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From Middle English woman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wÄ«fmann (“woman, female servant", literally “female person, female human being"), equivalent to wife +"Ž man. Compare Dutch vrouwmens (“wife", literally “woman-person"). Compare also West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl")(from frou and minske, literally "woman human-being"), Dutch vrouwspersoon (“woman"), German Weibsperson (“female person"), and dialectal German Fraumensch ("woman", literally "woman human-being").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English wimman variant of wīfman wīf woman man person man
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the noun woman.
From Wiktionary
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