Woman (noun): The female sex, collectively. The term "woman" is a fundamental word in the English language, encompassing biological, social, and cultural dimensions.
When you're talking about a woman, you're talking about a girl who's all grown up. Just as man sometimes refers to all people or all men, woman can refer to all women, as in "What's next for today's woman?"
Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Women are at greater risk of certain diseases like breast cancer, and at lower risk of other diseases like lung cancer.
The meaning of WOMAN is an adult female person. How to use woman in a sentence.
syn: woman, female, lady are nouns referring to adult human beings who are biologically female, that is, capable of bearing offspring. woman is the general, neutral term: a wealthy woman.
WOMAN definition: an adult female person. See examples of woman used in a sentence.
If you say that a woman is, for example, a Harvard woman, you mean that she went to that university.
From Middle English womman, from earlier wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man).
woman, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
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