woman

woman
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. female, lady, gentlewoman; wife. See humanity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [An adult female]
Syn. female, lady, dame, matron, gentlewoman, maid, spinster, debutante, nymph, virgin, girl, old woman, chick*, bird*, broad*, fem*, doll*, deb*.
2. [A wife or mistress]
Syn. love, lover, wife, old lady*; see housewife , mistress 2 .
3. [A female servant]
Syn. companion, housekeeper, cleaning lady, charlady (British), washerwoman, laundress, cook, maid, serving lady; see also servant , slave 1 .
4. [Womankind]
Syn. femininity, fair sex, eternal feminine, the world of women, the female of the species*, the weaker vessel*; see also womanhood 2 .
Syn.- woman is the standard general term for the adult human being of the sex distinguished from man ; female , referring specif. to sex, is applied to plants and animals, but is now regarded as a mildly contemptuous equivalent for woman [ that strong-minded female is here again ] , except in scientific, technical, or statistical use, as in population tables; lady , originally used specif. of a woman of the upper classes and until recently commonly used in polite or genteel reference to any woman, is now often avoided as a general substitute for woman , except in such formulas as ""ladies and gentlemen.''
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
lady, female, girl, gal, lass, *broad, maid, maiden, *colleen, damsel, matron, miss, Ms., matriarch, mother. ''A ministering angel.''—Sir Walter Scott. ''A creature between man and the angels.''—Honore de Balzac. ''[One who]
has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.''—Fannie Hurst.

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