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Definition of woman in English: womannounPlural women ˈwʊmənˈwʊmən 1An adult human female. 成年女子，妇女 a jury of seven women and five men as modifier a woman doctor Example sentencesExamples - It is probable that adult women gain much of their contemporary exposure to computer games at work.
- The jury of seven women and five men were discharged after failing to reach a verdict after more than eight hours of deliberation.
- I was able to talk - this might sound silly to you - talk to adult men and women face to face.
- The course is open to mature adults, particularly women, who wish to return to the workforce.
- Approximately two in five men and one in seven women in Scotland now drink so heavily that it is hazardous to their health.
- It's not a conspiracy, it's called human nature, and women are not the only victims.
- In the ad, five women sit in the stands and praise an adult male for showing up to watch his son's game.
- For a fourth straight month, the number of jobs increased for both adult women and adult men.
- The fact is that the seven men and women who died were shining examples of how great the human race can be.
- The idea that women are real human beings with thoughts and emotions is played down.
- Of the seven women lifters, five bagged three gold each, while two others had one each.
- It sets the stage for the adult lives of women, who no doubt grew up dreaming like Mallika.
- This is one of the first rites of passage toward acceptance into the adult society of women.
- Medical examination found that the amount of oestrogen in his body had reached that of adult women.
- Violence against women is a fundamental abuse of women's human rights and the scale of the problem is phenomenal.
- The reality is that this debate is about the fundamental human rights of women.
- Some places are still available in the Oral Irish Class, for adult men and women.
- Adult men and women are deemed to be equal in the administration of Australian justice.
- Several Jewish women who work for human rights are making their objections heard.
- From age twelve she is obligated to comply with all the demands placed on adult women.
Synonyms lady, girl, member of the fair/gentle sex, female matron, dowager Scottish & Northern English lass, lassie Irish colleen Australian yorga informal chick, girlie, filly, biddy British informal bird, bint, popsy Scottish & Northern English informal besom, wifie North American informal dame, broad, gal, jane, sister Australian/New Zealand informal sheila British informal, dated Judy North American informal, dated frail humorous the female of the species derogatory piece, bit, mare, baggage offensive bitch literary maid, maiden, damsel, demoiselle archaic or humorous wench archaic gentlewoman, petticoat - 1.1with modifier A female person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation.
女人，女性 one of his sophisticated London women Example sentencesExamples - Whether it is a working class woman or someone who is very rich, they all have grace and confidence.
- This disturbing trend for young white women to leap onstage is just not on.
- My wife and another Danish woman set up a shop in Blackrock, which sold designs made by Lisbeth.
- He was one of the first historians to analyse the activities of peasant women as a separate category.
- Ms September will embody the professional, intelligent yet sexy career woman.
- It's a car for relatively young professional women who have climbed the career ladder and who don't have children.
- Yesterday a West Indian woman dies of a heart attack while police raided her house in Tottenham.
- Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers.
- The obeah woman gave her associate an igloo and told him to go and buy some bags of ice from a gas station in the next parish.
- Flora was the young Highland woman who saved the prince by dressing him as her Irish maid and taking him across the sea to Skye.
- As it turns out, Baker has a really firm handle on a certain kind of working class woman.
- One is a predictable and unfulfilling entanglement with a South African woman.
- The fact that the young Latina woman was less than half his age meant nothing to Webb.
- He also pointed to the large number of families made up of young mainland women who married older Hong Kong men.
- Any Inuk woman in Canada may nominate any other Inuk woman in Canada for each of those positions.
- Or even as a working class woman in Bradford, reliant on the creaky National Health Service.
- Sadly, many women made the mistake of opting for the lower married woman's stamp and lived to regret it.
- A young gypsy woman entered his caravan and asked if he would be joining them for a meal.
- Miranda was the true career woman so they picked her to get pregnant and look how miserable they've made her.
- Occasionally it would wonder why young professional women don't find it attractive.
- 1.2 A peremptory form of address to a woman.
（盛气凌人的称呼）女人 别犯傻了，女人。 Example sentencesExamples - I told you to be home when I get home, little woman.
- For God's sake, woman, it's a tweed skirt and a polo neck with a pair of boots.
- 1.3 A female worker or employee.
女工；女职员 - 1.4 A female who is paid to clean someone's house and carry out other domestic duties.
女仆；打杂女佣；使女 Synonyms cleaning woman, cleaner, domestic help, domestic, maid British dated charwoman, char British informal daily, Mrs Mop - 1.5 A man's wife, girlfriend, or lover.
妻子；女朋友；情妇 he wondered whether Billy had his woman with him 他不知道比利是否带了他的女朋友。 Synonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée wife, spouse, helpmate, helpmeet, consort lover, mistress, paramour informal bird, fancy woman, old lady, missus, missis, better half, other half, WAGs (wives and girlfriends), POSSLQ (person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters), queen British informal Dutch, her indoors, girlf Irish informal mot North American informal squeeze, patootie Australian informal dona Indian informal bibi British rhyming slang trouble and strife dated lady friend, lady love, young lady, lady, lady wife archaic leman, doxy, concubine
PhrasesA condescending way of referring to one's wife. 小女人（表示称呼妻子的傲慢说法） male fisherfolk who take their catch home for the little woman to gut Example sentencesExamples - Sadly, that's not quite the view of some of the dinosaurs in the business world, who still seem to rate top management material according to the credentials of the little woman who irons his shirts and decorates his arm at corporate dinners.
- The cheerful little woman cooked, washed, ironed, cleaned, looked after the children and waited on her husband.
- The guy can pretend to be all macho and manly, be protective of the little woman, and then when it's really needed you can't rely on them cause they're too busy off in the corner crying like a baby.
- Often dismissed as Joyce's little woman, Nora emerges in Murphy's film as his easy equal, in force of character if not education.
- They were not for real men, but were the sort of places the little woman would go off to now and then, usually with a girlfriend in tow, and spend a few days messing about with quack therapists and their potions and lotions.
- Sorry the little woman got scared, but pour yourselves some drinks and try to have a chuckle about it, like the rest of us.
- So, the chump is scared of me and his little woman is handling his affairs.
- If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella.
- Mel's birthday was the next day and what did Antonio get his little woman?
- Of course, Sabitha could have been a stay-at-home, following her husband around the State wherever his posting took him, minding the children - a daughter and son - and being the little woman.
dated A patronizing form of address to a woman. （盛气凌人的称呼）女人 you're mistaken, my good woman 你错了，女人。 Example sentencesExamples - Little Snow-white looked out of the window and called out, ‘Good-day my good woman, what have you to sell?’
- And Marushka said, ‘Oh, my good woman, how can I go home when my father is unhappy with me?’
- He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at last: ‘This jam seems good, weigh me four ounces of it, my good woman; and even if it's a quarter of a pound I won't stick at it.’
- ‘Wait a bit, my good woman,’ says he, ‘and see what I have to say to you when I get home.’
- But this advice comes too late for you, my dear woman, and we must deal with the situation at hand.
- The soldiers looked up and replied, ‘Stone soup, my good woman, a wondrous dish and so, so much better if we were to have a single onion or two to drop herein!’
- ‘Very well, my good woman; I know what is proper,’ replied I, assuming an important air.
- Now, my good woman, could you be so kind as to tell us where the inn of this quaint town is?
- Mr. Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won at whist, and handed them to the beggar, saying, ‘Here, my good woman.’
- Then Judge Tyler stepped forward: ‘What would you say, my good woman, if I were to tell you that Patrick Henry fled with the rest of us?’
A female scholar or author. 女学者；女作家；女文人 Example sentencesExamples - They were literally men and women of letters and the group was tied together, not only by their emotional connections and daily conversations, but also by the writing of journals and letters.
- Already a famous woman of letters who had written A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions on the Happiness of Individuals and Nations, she became his companion for twelve years.
- The Académie Goncourt, founded under the will of Edmond de Goncourt, is a body of ten men or women of letters which awards an annual money prize for imaginative prose.
- You are obviously a woman of letters, but do you know anything about a car's engine?
- Based on the model of Susanna Haswell Rowson, a predecessor of Hentz's as an American woman of letters, the play was entitled De Lara; or, the Moorish Bride: A Tragedy in Five Acts.
- ‘The literary’ in turn signifies not high modernist art, but rather the ‘writing practices’ of women of letters at the turn of the twentieth century.
- The rebellion was, as all biographers agree, necessary that the woman of letters might emerge.
- Fuller was America's first public intellectual woman of letters.
- She was determined to remake herself as a woman of letters.
- And just as we have noted that Weelkes's text authors were men or women of letters, it is now evident that Weelkes himself was as well.
- It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel Swan, to grasp the Shavian reference.
- Is it then just women of letters, and of a certain income, like Enright and Cusk, who have the luxury of such a complex reaction to motherhood?
euphemistic, dated A prostitute. Example sentencesExamples - If that does not work, they can become women of the streets.
- Formerly a woman of the streets, elevated by Count Chabert to the status of Countess, his wife used his lands and fortune to marry into the aristocracy.
- True, if she was a woman of the streets, he would be mad at her, but he'd forgive her.
- That guy has more wiles than a woman of the streets,’ he thought with disgust.
- It was my job to tend the sick in the hospitals, to advise the women of the streets of their evil ways from the cover of a cowl, to tend the incense and candles in the cathedral.
In a direct and frank way between two women. 女人对女人，（两个女人间）直接坦白的方式 Alice smiled at her, woman to woman as modifier the hands-on, woman-to-woman relationship Example sentencesExamples - Once you confront people, and you sit with them and you have a cup of tea, and they see you are not a monster, and you explain person to person, woman to woman, why things are done and how things are done - it changes a lot, their attitude changes.
- She also wanted to talk, woman to woman, about how the day went.
- She told me she's enamored with the idea of someday sitting down at a cafe with Seana, chatting woman to woman, as they both smoke.
- I just wanted to have, well, a chat, man to man, woman to woman, bairn to bairn as I'm sure they put it doon the Wallygate.
- Our story starts as Shirley picks up the phone to confront Barbara - woman to woman.
- If you really want to help her, you will help by example - talking about your own experience woman to woman, friend to friend.
- Finally after months and months we were fighting, woman to woman.
- She had some advice for me about giving birth, woman to woman.
- Should she speak to me woman to woman, or enemy to enemy?
- While Clery draws lyrical material from her own experiences with the other sex, Lazariuk employs an earthy voice, guitar and rain stick to express the universality of all relationships - man to woman, woman to woman, man to man.
Derivativesadjective I'm 27 years old, not exactly ugly, and womanless. Example sentencesExamples - The snow here - not the picturesque whitener of Christmas cards - bespeaks the elements' menacing of the young ones and their womanless father.
- A black Freudian family drama, the play presents the return to his north London home and ostentatiously womanless family of Teddy, an academic, and his wife of six years, Ruth, once a photographic model.
- Their former captain offers a cynical toast, tweaking that ‘wonderful, abstaining, womanless Führer’ for his brilliant naval strategy, in spite of being an amateur painter by trade.
- The mateship of Gammage's diggers certainly presupposed a womanless world.
adjective Different though Jill and Karen Sprecher may be, they seem to be conducting a womanlike conversation about some of the very same things. Example sentencesExamples - He relates this factor to the adult Jesus' antipatriarchal behavior and to the fact that the adult Jesus often acted in a womanlike manner.
- At the front of the ship, the figurehead's womanlike face was thrown back in a howl of ecstasy, paws clutching her breasts, wings flared.
OriginOld English wīfmon, -man (see wife, man), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being wife. In Old English the spelling of woman was wīfmon or wīfman, a combination of wife (which then meant simply ‘woman’) and man (which meant ‘person’), so a woman was a ‘female person’. A woman's work is never done and a woman's place is in the home reflect the traditional view of the sexes. The former was first recorded in 1570, as ‘Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but housewives' affairs have never no end’. In response to such ideas, during the 1970s and 1980s some feminists decided that the usual plural of woman, women, had to be changed, because it contained men. They used womyn or wimmin, neither of which really caught on. The saying ‘ A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’ is sometimes credited to the American feminist Gloria Steinem but was probably just an anonymous piece of graffiti.
Definition of woman in US English: womannounˈwʊmənˈwo͝omən 1An adult human female. 成年女子，妇女 Example sentencesExamples - Adult men and women are deemed to be equal in the administration of Australian justice.
- It's not a conspiracy, it's called human nature, and women are not the only victims.
- Of the seven women lifters, five bagged three gold each, while two others had one each.
- I was able to talk - this might sound silly to you - talk to adult men and women face to face.
- Medical examination found that the amount of oestrogen in his body had reached that of adult women.
- The idea that women are real human beings with thoughts and emotions is played down.
- The fact is that the seven men and women who died were shining examples of how great the human race can be.
- For a fourth straight month, the number of jobs increased for both adult women and adult men.
- The course is open to mature adults, particularly women, who wish to return to the workforce.
- From age twelve she is obligated to comply with all the demands placed on adult women.
- It is probable that adult women gain much of their contemporary exposure to computer games at work.
- The reality is that this debate is about the fundamental human rights of women.
- Some places are still available in the Oral Irish Class, for adult men and women.
- Violence against women is a fundamental abuse of women's human rights and the scale of the problem is phenomenal.
- In the ad, five women sit in the stands and praise an adult male for showing up to watch his son's game.
- Approximately two in five men and one in seven women in Scotland now drink so heavily that it is hazardous to their health.
- This is one of the first rites of passage toward acceptance into the adult society of women.
- Several Jewish women who work for human rights are making their objections heard.
- The jury of seven women and five men were discharged after failing to reach a verdict after more than eight hours of deliberation.
- It sets the stage for the adult lives of women, who no doubt grew up dreaming like Mallika.
Synonyms lady, girl, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex, female - 1.1with modifier A female person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation.
女人，女性 一位克拉克顿的少妇。 Example sentencesExamples - Or even as a working class woman in Bradford, reliant on the creaky National Health Service.
- Flora was the young Highland woman who saved the prince by dressing him as her Irish maid and taking him across the sea to Skye.
- Miranda was the true career woman so they picked her to get pregnant and look how miserable they've made her.
- Young career women are more likely to demand things like flextime and less overtime from employers.
- The obeah woman gave her associate an igloo and told him to go and buy some bags of ice from a gas station in the next parish.
- Whether it is a working class woman or someone who is very rich, they all have grace and confidence.
- It's a car for relatively young professional women who have climbed the career ladder and who don't have children.
- Yesterday a West Indian woman dies of a heart attack while police raided her house in Tottenham.
- Ms September will embody the professional, intelligent yet sexy career woman.
- A young gypsy woman entered his caravan and asked if he would be joining them for a meal.
- My wife and another Danish woman set up a shop in Blackrock, which sold designs made by Lisbeth.
- This disturbing trend for young white women to leap onstage is just not on.
- One is a predictable and unfulfilling entanglement with a South African woman.
- Any Inuk woman in Canada may nominate any other Inuk woman in Canada for each of those positions.
- As it turns out, Baker has a really firm handle on a certain kind of working class woman.
- Occasionally it would wonder why young professional women don't find it attractive.
- He was one of the first historians to analyse the activities of peasant women as a separate category.
- Sadly, many women made the mistake of opting for the lower married woman's stamp and lived to regret it.
- The fact that the young Latina woman was less than half his age meant nothing to Webb.
- He also pointed to the large number of families made up of young mainland women who married older Hong Kong men.
- 1.2in singular Female adults in general.
总称女人，女子 女人直觉敏锐。 Example sentencesExamples - The chance of complications depends on the exact procedure and other factors such as the woman's general health.
- What kind of woman wants a man like that, especially when the deal for her is to be the servant?
- All those things are the tropes of a reductive idea about what is woman and female.
- These artificial aids only worsen the condition if a woman's general health is bad.
- I thought Catholic Faith would insist the Church is the road man and woman must walk.
- There is no draft in this country and every single man and woman in uniform chose to wear one.
- These include a woman's age and general health, as well as the exact type and stage of cancer.
- Sorry, but I am an old fashioned woman who believes that this is a job that belongs to the men.
- Let only the top man or woman be elected by general public and the rest by taxpayers.
- Now that the internet has empowered any man or woman to have a voice, the truth can be found.
- Nobody is thinking about what does the man and woman in the street think about that.
- Now, as a general psychological theory about men and woman this is rather questionable!
- Sure, the general belief that a woman wants a successful man holds true, but not because of his money.
- 1.3 A peremptory form of address to a woman.
（盛气凌人的称呼）女人 别犯傻了，女人。 Example sentencesExamples - I told you to be home when I get home, little woman.
- For God's sake, woman, it's a tweed skirt and a polo neck with a pair of boots.
- 1.4 A female worker or employee.
女工；女职员 - 1.5 A female paid to clean someone's house and carry out general domestic duties.
女仆；打杂女佣；使女 Synonyms cleaning woman, cleaner, domestic help, domestic, maid - 1.6 A wife, girlfriend, or lover.
妻子；女朋友；情妇 he wondered whether Billy had his woman with him 他不知道比利是否带了他的女朋友。 Synonyms girlfriend, girl, sweetheart, partner, significant other, inamorata, fiancée
PhrasesA condescending way of referring to a man's wife. 小女人（表示称呼妻子的傲慢说法） Example sentencesExamples - Mel's birthday was the next day and what did Antonio get his little woman?
- Sadly, that's not quite the view of some of the dinosaurs in the business world, who still seem to rate top management material according to the credentials of the little woman who irons his shirts and decorates his arm at corporate dinners.
- Of course, Sabitha could have been a stay-at-home, following her husband around the State wherever his posting took him, minding the children - a daughter and son - and being the little woman.
- Sorry the little woman got scared, but pour yourselves some drinks and try to have a chuckle about it, like the rest of us.
- If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella.
- The cheerful little woman cooked, washed, ironed, cleaned, looked after the children and waited on her husband.
- The guy can pretend to be all macho and manly, be protective of the little woman, and then when it's really needed you can't rely on them cause they're too busy off in the corner crying like a baby.
- They were not for real men, but were the sort of places the little woman would go off to now and then, usually with a girlfriend in tow, and spend a few days messing about with quack therapists and their potions and lotions.
- Often dismissed as Joyce's little woman, Nora emerges in Murphy's film as his easy equal, in force of character if not education.
- So, the chump is scared of me and his little woman is handling his affairs.
dated A patronizing form of address to a woman. （盛气凌人的称呼）女人 you're mistaken, my good woman 你错了，女人。 Example sentencesExamples - Little Snow-white looked out of the window and called out, ‘Good-day my good woman, what have you to sell?’
- Then Judge Tyler stepped forward: ‘What would you say, my good woman, if I were to tell you that Patrick Henry fled with the rest of us?’
- ‘Very well, my good woman; I know what is proper,’ replied I, assuming an important air.
- He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at last: ‘This jam seems good, weigh me four ounces of it, my good woman; and even if it's a quarter of a pound I won't stick at it.’
- ‘Wait a bit, my good woman,’ says he, ‘and see what I have to say to you when I get home.’
- The soldiers looked up and replied, ‘Stone soup, my good woman, a wondrous dish and so, so much better if we were to have a single onion or two to drop herein!’
- And Marushka said, ‘Oh, my good woman, how can I go home when my father is unhappy with me?’
- Now, my good woman, could you be so kind as to tell us where the inn of this quaint town is?
- Mr. Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won at whist, and handed them to the beggar, saying, ‘Here, my good woman.’
- But this advice comes too late for you, my dear woman, and we must deal with the situation at hand.
A female scholar or author. 女学者；女作家；女文人 Example sentencesExamples - It's difficult to tell, but perhaps we could have expected a woman of letters, whose name adorns the cover of the 1997 novel Swan, to grasp the Shavian reference.
- They were literally men and women of letters and the group was tied together, not only by their emotional connections and daily conversations, but also by the writing of journals and letters.
- Fuller was America's first public intellectual woman of letters.
- The rebellion was, as all biographers agree, necessary that the woman of letters might emerge.
- ‘The literary’ in turn signifies not high modernist art, but rather the ‘writing practices’ of women of letters at the turn of the twentieth century.
- And just as we have noted that Weelkes's text authors were men or women of letters, it is now evident that Weelkes himself was as well.
- Is it then just women of letters, and of a certain income, like Enright and Cusk, who have the luxury of such a complex reaction to motherhood?
- She was determined to remake herself as a woman of letters.
- The Académie Goncourt, founded under the will of Edmond de Goncourt, is a body of ten men or women of letters which awards an annual money prize for imaginative prose.
- You are obviously a woman of letters, but do you know anything about a car's engine?
- Based on the model of Susanna Haswell Rowson, a predecessor of Hentz's as an American woman of letters, the play was entitled De Lara; or, the Moorish Bride: A Tragedy in Five Acts.
- Already a famous woman of letters who had written A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions on the Happiness of Individuals and Nations, she became his companion for twelve years.
euphemistic, dated Used euphemistically to refer to a prostitute. 〈旧，婉〉妓女，娼妓 Example sentencesExamples - True, if she was a woman of the streets, he would be mad at her, but he'd forgive her.
- Formerly a woman of the streets, elevated by Count Chabert to the status of Countess, his wife used his lands and fortune to marry into the aristocracy.
- That guy has more wiles than a woman of the streets,’ he thought with disgust.
- It was my job to tend the sick in the hospitals, to advise the women of the streets of their evil ways from the cover of a cowl, to tend the incense and candles in the cathedral.
- If that does not work, they can become women of the streets.
In a direct and frank way between two women. 女人对女人，（两个女人间）直接坦白的方式 Example sentencesExamples - Finally after months and months we were fighting, woman to woman.
- She told me she's enamored with the idea of someday sitting down at a cafe with Seana, chatting woman to woman, as they both smoke.
- Should she speak to me woman to woman, or enemy to enemy?
- I just wanted to have, well, a chat, man to man, woman to woman, bairn to bairn as I'm sure they put it doon the Wallygate.
- She also wanted to talk, woman to woman, about how the day went.
- If you really want to help her, you will help by example - talking about your own experience woman to woman, friend to friend.
- She had some advice for me about giving birth, woman to woman.
- Once you confront people, and you sit with them and you have a cup of tea, and they see you are not a monster, and you explain person to person, woman to woman, why things are done and how things are done - it changes a lot, their attitude changes.
- Our story starts as Shirley picks up the phone to confront Barbara - woman to woman.
- While Clery draws lyrical material from her own experiences with the other sex, Lazariuk employs an earthy voice, guitar and rain stick to express the universality of all relationships - man to woman, woman to woman, man to man.
OriginOld English wīfmon, -man (see wife, man), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being wife. |