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noun

plural of woman.

Example Sentences

It's nice that more women in positions of power feel safe talking about family commitments at work.

It is well established in the research on higher education that women are less likely to achieve tenure than men.

Women and girls die prematurely in greater numbers than men.

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It's nice that more women in positions of power feel safe talking about family commitments at work.

It is well established in the research on higher education that women are less likely to achieve tenure than men.

Women and girls die prematurely in greater numbers than men.

Afghan women suffer under the constraints of tribalism, poverty, and war.

Men and women differ in how they categorize the world.

Not only are women still rare at the top of the science world, but they are even more uncommon in the public eye.

Carhartt now makes pants specifically designed for women.

Researchers say there may be biological reasons why more men than women become architects, mathemeticians, and race-car drivers.

Other women have said he made unwanted advances during dinners or events that involved alcohol.

It may be hard to attract women into engineering, but keeping them there doesn't seem to be a problem.

The six women responded by organising a demonstration at which they urged each other to take action.

Women who hold back feelings of anger may end up more irate in the long run.

Both captains ordered that women and children be given first priority on the boats.

These women have no formal culinary training, and get no instruction from us regarding the recipe.

Women buy a lot of gadgets, but it's easy for us to feel invisible in the world of consumer electronics.

Somewhere along the line, especially in recent years, progress for women has stalled.

As women become wealthier, colleges learn to solicit gifts from them.

One way to reduce the financial havoc these hormones might wreak could be for trading desks to hire more women.

Research finds that scantily-clad women and men are judged in similar ways.

But despite the exhilarating colors, his women were all grotesque.

Both women mulch around plants with wood chips, which also cover the path that runs between their gardens.

Women may replenish their egg supply throughout life, if a study successful in mice holds true for humans.

Some women avoid wearing skirts for fear of attracting unwanted attention.

Colleges work to attract and support women in technology majors.

Dozens of well-dressed women sit on white couches, waiting.

Though women may try their darndest to eliminate them, fat deposits on the thighs and buttocks are often there to stay.

Two women almost crashed their cars into each other trying to escape.

New guidelines for embryonic stem-cell research say women should not be paid for giving up their eggs.

Successful women use fear not to undermine their success, but to apologize for it.

Women have traditionally traded looks for economic support in marriage.

Parenting, caring for offspring, and the work-life balance are issues usually relegated to women.

So it gets its name from all the nameless cottages in which thrifty rural women have produced this cheese.

But they might not realize that it's also crawling with women.

The percentage of women working has risen dramatically.

Women and children are being enslaved by these technologies in secret with no way to redress grievances.

There's a reason why women have stronger senses of smell than men.

The women in question were shown short, silent videos of the volunteers.

My interest is if there is a truly healthy range for body fat for men and/or women and if this range varies with age.

The situation in the camps is causing additional problems of insecurity and violence, especially against women.

Women have a wider focus and are more aware of the inter-connection of subjects and how they relate to each other.

Defense technology for women gets close and personal.

Watching women in bikinis tends to make men more impulsive when it comes to monetary decisions.

Reproduction research reaches a breakthrough for women who want to preserve their fertility: implanted frozen ovary tissue.

Men marry younger women and women prefer to marry older men, in general.

Back then, movies marketed to women and couples bored me to tears.

The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women.

But women in the new economy say they also face a silicon ceiling.

Specialists say the findings don't mean women who inherit an unfortunate gene package are doomed.

Women choose fields that help people, and that pay less.

Across the rich world more women are working than ever before.

Explore how powerful women have shaped history, from acclaimed artists and writers to world leaders.

It might be biologically hard-wired into women who are literally able to sniff out the scent.

Today's elderly women often have had far less experience navigating new social settings than their working daughters.

Minority-group members and women now earn large percentages of.

View notable films by women from and about international, indigenous cultures.

According to new research, women experience a rebound effect when they suppress angry.

Women do have a voice here in the west, yet still have not achieved equality.

Eventually she teamed up with neighboring women to make lavender soaps and lotions, began selling lavender to chefs.

Fifty years after they coded the world's first computer, a group of women will finally receive recognition for their work.

Unlike hernias in men, those that afflict women are usually small and internal and rarely cause an obvious bulge.

Women and members of minority groups tend to take longer than students.

Likewise, gay men and straight women appear to have similar.

For example, listing child care in a grant budget would be a way to give women more opportunity.

Despite gains in the rank and file, few women are in top management.

For the first time in recorded history, women outnumber men on the nation's payrolls.

What has been established is that there are some women who would.

Where clean water is scarcest, the task of fetching water defines life for women.

Like it or not, men and women evolved different kinds of violent minds.

Women are buying more wine, so winemakers are coming up with labels aimed at attracting young mothers and cupcake lovers.

In the last ten years the number of women in prison has nearly doubled.

Smithsonian spotlights the women that are changing the face of scientific research.

But some wonder whether women really need their own conference to gain visibility in the old.

Discriminated against in the private sector, educated women are choosing government jobs instead.

Itineraries, tips, and stories for and from women on the road.

Americans take more antidepressants than they do any other type of prescription drug, and pregnant women are.

Female science-fiction fans didn't often see strong women in their favorite childhood books, but that's changing.

But the distribution of women hasn't changed much: in.

And far fewer women than men pursue computer-science degrees.

Afghan women who set themselves on fire may do so to.

Men who smelled tears produced by women who cried from watching a sad film had lower testosterone levels and less.

Yes, it's more difficult for women to travel alone, but it's often more fulfilling.

Child mortality rates decline as women become better educated.

It's written predominantly by women for women, except it.

Women must do the same, but at far greater cost to their personal lives.

Young women should make no effort to improve their social skills or emotional state.

It is being done without draconian measures by big government, without crackdowns on our liberties--by women making their own.

Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism.

New study shows that women with chronic headaches are more prone to major depression.

Women, however, were more apt to deal with depression and report more health issues than women who aren't gamers.

Research confirms that women tend to apologize much more frequently than men do, but there's a curious twist as to why.

Men dying sooner than women makes sense biologically.

Women become wenches, every drink becomes a mug of rum and every cell phone.

Radiation and chemotherapies that save young women from cancer can leave them infertile.

When he came to, the young women struck him on the head.

When women approach men instead of vice versa, the gender difference in selectivity disappears.

To boost urban bicycling, figure out what women want.

Marianne was among the half of the women who had received a placebo patch-with no testosterone in it at all.

Women and men speak their own languages, but research reveals the conversational gender divide is not as stark as it seems.

Breast cancer incidence parallels estrogen-progestin use among menopausal and postmenopausal women.

When women are ovulating, their features change in ways that men unconsciously pick up.

So men are particularly attracted to women when they're fertile.

With early detection, for example, women stricken with breast cancer are often successfully treated and go on to live.

Now they're coming under fire for potentially putting women at an.

Women who ate full-fat ice cream had fewer ovulation-related infertility problems.

Women who consumed more calories while pregnant had more males than women on lower-calorie diets.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural -en's.

a range of sizes usually from 38 to 44 for garments that fit larger than average women.

a garment in this size range.

the department or section of a store where these garments are sold.

noun

the female human being (distinguished from man).

an adult female person.

a female attendant to a lady of rank.

a wife.

the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness.

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a sweetheart or paramour; mistress.

a female employee or representative: A woman from the real estate agency called.

a female person who cleans house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper: The woman will be in to clean today.

women collectively: Woman is no longer subordinate to man.

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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

13.

of women; womanly.

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.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English womman, wimman, Old English wīfman, equivalent to wīf female + man human being; see wife, man¹

Related forms

wom·an·less, adjective

an·ti·wom·an, adjective, noun, plural -wom·en.

Can be confused: gal, girl, lady, woman (see usage note at girl; see synonym and usage notes at lady; see synonym and usage notes at the current entry).

Synonyms
Woman, female, lady are nouns referring to adult human beings who are biologically female; that is, capable of bearing offspring. Woman is the general term. It is neutral, lacking either favorable or unfavorable implication, and is the most commonly used of the three: a wealthy woman; a woman of strong character, of unbridled appetites. In scientific, statistical, and other objective use, female is the neutral contrastive term to male and may apply to plants and animals also: 104 females to every 100 males; Among lions, the female is the chief hunter. Female is sometimes used in disparaging contexts: a gossipy female; a conniving female. Lady meaning “refined, polite woman” is a term of approval or praise: a real lady in all things; to behave like a lady.

Usage note
2. Although formerly woman was sometimes regarded as demeaning and lady was the term of courtesy, woman is the designation preferred by most modern female adults: League of Women Voters; American Association of University Women. Woman is the standard feminine parallel to man. EXPANDAs a modifier of a plural noun, woman, like man, is exceptional in that the plural form women is used: women athletes; women students. The use of lady as a term of courtesy has diminished somewhat in recent years (the lady of the house), although it still survives in a few set phrases (ladies' room; Ladies' Day). Lady is also used, but decreasingly, as a term of reference for women engaged in occupations considered by some to be menial or routine: cleaning lady; saleslady. See also girl, lady, -woman.

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World English Dictionary

women (ˈwɪmɪn)

—n
	the plural of woman

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Word Origin & History

woman

late O.E. wimman (pl. wimmen), lit. "woman-man," alteration of wifman (pl. wifmen), a compound of wif "woman" (see wife) + man "human being" (in O.E. used in ref. to both sexes; see man). Cf. Du. vrouwmens "wife," lit. "woman-man." The formation is

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peculiar to Eng. and Du. Replaced older O.E. wif, quean as the word for "female human being." The pronunciation of the singular altered in M.E. by the rounding influence of -w-; the plural retains the original vowel. Meaning "wife," now largely restricted to U.S. dial. use, is attested from c.1450. Women's liberation is attested from 1966; women's rights is from 1840, with an isolated example in 1632. Verb womanize originally (1593) meant "to make effeminate;" sense of "to chase women, to go wenching" is attested from 1893.

women

plural of woman (q.v.).

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