Word Meanings - WOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wifmon, AS. wifmann, wimmann; wif woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, 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

Additional info about word: WOMAN

wifmon, AS. wifmann, wimmann; wif woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, 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. " By her woman I sent your message." Shak. Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WOMAN)

• Adult
• Man
• woman
• matron
• Mother
• dowager
• dame

Related words: (words related to WOMAN)

• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• ADULTER
  To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• ADULTERIZE
  To commit adultery. Milton.
• ADULTEROUS
  1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden. 2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." Smollett.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• ADULT
  Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• DOWAGERISM
  The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN