English noun: woman |
| 1. | woman (person) an adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
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| Samples | The woman kept house while the man hunted.
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| Synonyms | adult female |
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| Broader (hypernym) | adult, female, female person, grownup |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amazon, B-girl, bachelor girl, bachelorette, baggage, ball-breaker, ball-buster, bar girl, bas bleu, bawd, beauty, Black woman, bluestocking, bridesmaid, broad, cat, Cinderella, cocotte, coquette, cyprian, dame, deb, debutante, Delilah, dish, divorcee, dominatrix, donna, enchantress, ex, ex-wife, eyeful, fancy woman, fancy woman, femme fatale, fille, flirt, geisha, geisha girl, gentlewoman, girl, girl, girl, girlfriend, girlfriend, gold digger, grass widow, gravida, harlot, heroine, houri, inamorata, jezebel, jilt, kept woman, knockout, lady, lady, lady friend, lady of pleasure, looker, lulu, ma'am, madam, maenad, maenad, maid of honor, mantrap, married woman, materfamilias, matriarch, matriarch, matron, mestiza, minx, miss, missy, mistress, mother figure, nanny, nullipara, nurse, nursemaid, nymph, nymphet, old woman, peach, prickteaser, prostitute, ravisher, shiksa, shikse, siren, smasher, sporting lady, stunner, sweetheart, sylph, tart, tease, temptress, unmarried woman, vamp, vamper, vestal, virago, Wac, Wave, white woman, whore, widow, widow woman, wife, woman of the street, wonder woman, working girl, yellow woman, young lady, young woman |
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| Instance hyponym | Eve |
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| Part holonym | adult female body, woman's body |
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| Antonyms | adult male, man |
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| 2. | woman (person) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man |
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| Samples | He was faithful to his woman.
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| Broader (hypernym) | female, female person |
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| Domain usage | colloquialism |
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| Antonyms | man |
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| 3. | woman (person) a human female employed to do housework |
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| Samples | The char will clean the carpet.
I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write.
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| Synonyms | char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cleaner |
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| 4. | woman (group) women as a class |
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| Samples | It's an insult to American womanhood.
Woman is the glory of creation.
The fair sex gathered on the veranda.
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| Synonyms | fair sex, womanhood |
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| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
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| Member meronym | womankind |
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