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Woman

noun

(pl. women)

An adult female person (as opposed to a man). Synonym: adult female.

A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man.

A human female employed to do housework. Synonyms: char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman. "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

Women as a class. Synonyms: fair sex, womanhood. "Woman is the glory of creation" , "The fair sex gathered on the veranda"

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"Woman" Quotes from Famous Books

... him with an expression such as he never had seen before on a human face. Was it the autumn sunlight that illumined her features? He learned eventually that it was the spiritual radiance of the noblest self-sacrifice of which a woman is capable. ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

... were lost in the old woman's voice,—'Now, sir, if you know him or his family, I wouldn't be wishing to do him no hinjury, nor to ruinate his prospects, being, as he says, that the rich lady will make him her hare; but, sir, if you have any power with ...

— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge

... "What would a woman be doing here as third mate?" I asked; for although I had come to the same conclusion some days before, I had said nothing ...

— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains

... else to go, I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman." ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... vanished Ralph closed the front door and locked it. He returned to the sitting-room to find his mother pale and trembling. Unable to stand, the poor woman had sunk back on ...

— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield

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