Woman

Definition of Woman

Wom´an
n.1.
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; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
- J. Ledyard.
2.The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
- Thackeray.
3.A female attendant or servant.
Woman hater
one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist.
- Swift.
v. t.1.To act the part of a woman in; - with indefinite it.
2.To make effeminate or womanish.
3.To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

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