women
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
An inflected form of woman · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 314 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 64,981 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.031% 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
women 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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What means this crowd of men And women here in peaceful Bethlehem?
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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And of all the women in the world, fate had sent this one to play the Lady Bountiful.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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People stand up in the carriages, women and men; the fence is loaded with people, often standing, too, to see that tree.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1