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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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— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10

... towards him. But it was not until they had come within a few yards of each other, and he observed that this cloaked figure was leaning forward to peer at him, that he took much notice of it. And then he found himself challenged almost at once by a woman's voice. ...

— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... and descend by the rocks more rapidly than by the usual road to a little outpost which he had placed at the entrance of the town, on the side toward the chateau, when a slight noise arrested him. He fancied he heard the light step of a woman on the gravelled path behind him. He turned his head and saw no one, but his eyes were caught by an extraordinary light upon the ocean. Suddenly he beheld a sight so alarming that he stood for a moment motionless with surprise, fancying that his senses were mistaken. The white rays of the moonlight ...

— El Verdugo • Honore de Balzac

... a woman of courage. She was determined to defend the lives of herself and daughter to the last. She looked around the house for a weapon. The pistols of Don Pablo were hanging against the wall. She knew they were loaded. She took them down, and looked ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... in the shadow of one of them, was the flushed, full-breathing woman, hurt but dumb, wondering, in her bruised tenderness, why ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

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