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Look up: Woman

  1. woman
    [n] - (informal) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man 2. [n] - an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. woman
    (tool) 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 (arnej@pvv.unit.no), archive-name woman-1.15...
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  3. woman
    Violence against women by their partner Category: Man and society
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Woman
    Wom'an noun ; plural Women . [ Middle English woman , womman , wumman , wimman , wifmon , Anglo-Saxon wīfmann , wīmmann ; wīf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife , and Man .] 1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometim ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/47

  5. Woman
    Wom'an transitive verb 1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it . Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. [ R.] Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [ R.] 'To have him see me woman'd .' Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/47

  6. woman
    1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. 'Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.' (Shak) 'And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.' (Gen. Ii. 22) 'I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. woman
    adult female noun an adult female person (as opposed to a man); `the woman kept house while the man hunted`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Woman
    A `woman` is a female human. The term `woman` (irregular plural: `women`) usually is used for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term `woman` is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as `Women's rights`.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman

  9. Woman
    • (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. • (n.) A female attendant or servant. • (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. • (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. • (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish. &bull...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. Woman
    (from the article `Action painting`) ...that Jackson Pollock`s abstract drip paintings, executed from 1947, opened the way to the bolder, gestural techniques that characterize Action ... ...early abstractions can be interpreted as female symbols, it was not until 1950 that he began to explore the subject of women exclusively. In the ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/48

  11. woman
    woman (s), women (pl) 1. An adult female human. 2. Women considered as a group; womankind. 3. An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination: an Englishwoman; congresswoman; a saleswoman. 4. Feminine quality or aspect; womanliness. ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. woman
    1. an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
    2. women as a class
    3. a human female who does housework
    4. (informal) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man

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