Woman Definition–noun | 1. | the female human being (distinguished from man). |
| 2. | an adult female person. |
| 3. | a female attendant to a lady of rank. |
| 5. | the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness. |
| 6. | a sweetheart or paramour; mistress. |
| 7. | a female employee or representative: A woman from the real estate agency called. |
| 8. | a female person who cleans house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper: The woman will be in to clean today. |
| 9. | women collectively: Woman is no longer subordinate to man. |
–verb (used with object) | 10. | to put into the company of a woman. |
| 11. | to equip or staff with women. |
| 12. | Obsolete. to cause to act or yield like a woman. |
–adjective
| 14. | female: a woman plumber. |
—Idiom| 15. | be one's own woman, (of females) to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence; be independent. |
|
From Dictionary
Related topics from BritannicaNational Woman's Party
American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.woman suffrage
the right of women by law to vote in national and local elections.Woman's Journal
American weekly suffragist periodical, first published on January 8, 1870, by Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry Blackwell, to address a broad segment of middle-class female society interested in ...
Woman Citizen, The
American weekly periodical, one of the most influential women's publications of the early decades of the 20th century. It came into existence as a result of a substantial bequest from Mrs. Frank ...
Texas Woman's University
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Denton, Texas, U.S. It focuses on liberal arts and professional studies. Texas Woman's University is divided into the University General ...
National Woman Suffrage Association
American organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women's rights movement split into two groups over the ...
History of Woman Suffrage
publication that appeared, over the course of some 40 years, in six volumes and nearly 6,000 pages chronicling the American woman suffrage movement in great, but incomplete, detail. It consists of ...
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
American organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the "Woman's Crusade," a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in ...
American Woman Suffrage Association
American political organization that worked from 1869 to 1890 to gain for women the right to vote.National American Woman Suffrage Association
American organization created in 1890 by the merger of the two major rival women's rights organizations-the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association-after 21 ...
|
Related topics from Technorati |
|
|
|
