Woman

Noun

 * 1) An adult female human.

Verb

 * To man with female labor.
 * 1) *1956, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, The Viking Press, page 54
 * Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
 * 1) *1990, Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
 * Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned) by able drivers would be unable to move.
 * The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”

Adjectives for Woman
abject; accomplished; admirable; affected; affectionate; aggressive; ambitious; amiable; appealing; aproned; artful; ashy-hued; attractive; beautiful; awe-stricken; baby-faced; bedraggled; bedridden; bent; bewitching; brawny; bread-winning; brilliant; broken-hearted; bustling; careworn; celebrated; charming; chaste; childless; clear-eyed; clear-headed; clever; clinging; comely; compassionate; composed; consonant; corpulent; courageous; crabby; crisp; cruel; curious; cynical; decent; decrepit; defense-less; delicate; desireful; determined; devout; discontented; distinguished; dutiful; dowdyish; dressed; earthly; economical; ecstatic; elaborate; elegant; embroidering; emerging; enduring; energetic; equable; erring; estimable; excellent; exemplary; fair-faced; fanatic; fantastic; fascinating; fashionable; fervent; feverish; flashy; flat; foolish; forsaken; fragile; frantic; frightened; fruitful; frigid; frowsy; full-blossomed; garrulous; gaunt; ghastly; glamorous; glittering; gray; grim; grizzled; handsome; happy; hard-faced; hard-worked; head-strong; haughty; heartless; helpless; heroic; hesitating; high-minded; home-keeping; home-loving; hypersensitive; hysterical; idealistic; illiterate; imperious; impish; implacable; importunate; impressible; incorrigible; indefatigable; independent; indigent; industrious; infidel; informal; insipid; intelligent; intrepid; jealous; jocose; large-souled; lewd; limping; listless; lithe; little; lonely; loitering; long; loose; loquacious; lovely; lumpish; lustful; managing; marble-limbed; mean; middle-aged; mincing; miserable; miserly; modern; modest; morbid; mortal; motherly; much-loved; mulatto; mystic; new; nice; noble; observant; odious; old; over-virtuous; over-worked; overwrought; pale; perfidious; perjured; pernicious; pinched; pitiless; plain-featured; plainly-dressed; plump; poor; preeminent; presumptuous; pretty; promiscuous; prosaic;prosperous; proud; prudent; querulous; radiant; rapacious; remarkable; repentant; resolute; respected; reticent; rheumatic; romantic; sad-eyed; scrawny; seductive; self-loving; sensible; sensitive; serene-eyed serious; shabby; shadowy; shallow; showy shrewd; shriveled; silken-tressed; silly slatternly; slender; slim; smooth-limbed sorrowful; sour-faced; sporting; spotless square-browed; stalwart; stout; striking; sumptuous; super-annuated; superior; sweet; sweet-voiced; tactful; tattling; tawdry; tenacious; tender; terrified; timid; timorous; tremendous; tremulous; unconstant; uncultivated; uncultured; unenlightened; unescorted; unkempt; unprotected; unworldly; vain; versatile; virtuous; vivacious; warm-hearted; wayside; wayward; weak-willed; wearied; wearisome; weeping; weird; well-dressed; well-favored; white-faced; wilted; witch-like; withered; witty; wooden; worldly; wretched; wrinkled; young.

Thesaurus
Eve, Frau, adult, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, distaff side, domina, donna, dowager, doxy, fair sex, female sex, feme, feme covert, femininity, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, grown man, grownup, helpmate, helpmeet, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lass, legalis homo, little, major, man, married woman, matron, mature man, milady, mistress, no chicken, old lady, old woman, paramour, playmate, rib, second sex, softer sex, squaw, unofficial wife, vrouw, wahine, weaker sex, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolks.

Synonyms
female; lady.

Antonyms
girl; man

Derived terms
cleaning woman; firewoman; gentlewoman; kept woman; little woman; medicine woman; old woman; other woman; policewoman; womanish; womanly; womanhood; woman suffrage; woman's work; womenfolk; womenhood; women’s lib; womyn.

Etymology
wīfmann, from wif: (‘adult female’, Modern English wife) + mann (‘human being’).

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: メノコ (menoko)
 * Akkadian:
 * Alabama: tayyi
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:,  ,
 * Aragonese: muller
 * Armenian: կին
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian: muyer
 * Aymara: palla
 * Azeri: qadın
 * Basque: andre, emakume
 * Baure:
 * Belarusian: жанчына
 * Breton: maouez -ed
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: dona
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 * Chinese:
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 * Teochew: za1bhou2nang5, ze1nion5
 * Chiricahua: ’isdzán
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 * Georgian: ქალი
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 * Hebrew: אישה
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 * Acehnese: inong
 * Balinese: luh/istri
 * Banjar: binian
 * Buginese: makkunrai
 * Javanese: wadon, wedok
 * Kaili: mombine
 * Mandar: tobaine
 * Sundanese: awewe/istri
 * Interlingua: femina
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᓇᖅ
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 * Malay:
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 * Maltese:
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 * Maricopa:
 * Mi'kmaq: ebit
 * Navajo: asdzáán, asdzą́ą́
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 * Tamil: பெண்
 * Taos: łȉwéna
 * Telugu: ఆడది (aaDadi), స్త్రీ (stree), మహిళ (mahiLa)
 * Tetum: feto
 * Thai: ผู้หญิง
 * Tok Pisin: meri
 * Tswana:
 * Tupinambá: kunhã
 * Turkish:
 * Tz'utujil: ixoq
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 * West Frisian: frou,
 * Western Apache: isdzánhń (-’isdzą’)
 * !Xóõ: tâa qáe
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