woman
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
How often you will meet it
Rank 185 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 129,980 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.062% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- an adult female person (as opposed to a man) also: adult female the woman kept house while the man hunted
- a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man he was faithful to his woman
- a human female employed to do housework also: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady the char will clean the carpetI have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write
- women as a class also: womanhood, fair sex it's an insult to American womanhoodwoman is the glory of creation
woman in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She was a most generous woman, and possessed a considerable fortune of her own.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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A woman ought to be gentle--if his mother had been alive--but then he was glad she wasn't.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Brave woman! you have done your people and mine a service which can neither be weighed nor measured.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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So unable to please a woman, that, like a Dutch doublet, all his back is shrunk into his breaches.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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But for ten years he and this sweet-faced elderly woman in the doorway had been father and mother to the orphaned girl.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1