From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woman
n 1: an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman
kept house while the man hunted" [syn: woman, {adult
female}] [ant: adult male, man]
2: 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" [ant: man]
3: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean
the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day
while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
cleaning lady, woman]
4: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
"woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on
the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. Women. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
wimman, wifmon, AS. w[imac]fmann, w[imac]mmann; w[imac]f
woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.]
[1913 Webster]
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
person.
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Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22.
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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.
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2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
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Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
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3. A female attendant or servant. " By her woman I sent your
message." --Shak.
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Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
--Daniel.
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2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.
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3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] "To have him
see me woman'd." --Shak.
[1913 Webster] Womanhead
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
woman
<tool> A replacement for the Unix man documentation
browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on
386BSD, OSF, Apollo Domain/OS, BSD, HP-UX, IBM
RS-6000, Irix, Linux, Solaris, Sony NEWS, SunOS,
Ultrix, Unicos.
Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul
1993 by Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@pvv.unit.no>, archive-name
woman-1.157.
{FTP USC, USA
(ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}.
{FTP Imperial, UK
(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}.
(1995-03-21)