Woman
Nouns
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woman, she, her, female, petticoat. feminality, muliebrity
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womanhood etc. (adolescence) Adolescence. womankind
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the sex, the fair
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fair sex, softer sex
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weaker vessel. dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, matron, dowager, goody, gammer
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frow, Vrouw [Du.], rani
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good woman, good wife
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squaw
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wife etc. (marriage) Marriage
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matronage, matronhood. bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist. nymph, wench, grisette
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girl etc. (youth) Infant. [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman. [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare
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she goat, Nanny goat, tabita
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ewe, cow
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lioness, tigress
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vixen. gynecaeum. estrogen, oestrogen. consanguinity etc. Paternity [Female relatives], paternity etc. [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity. lesbian, dyke [Slang].
Adjectives
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female, she-
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feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely
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womanish, effeminate, unmanly
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gynecic, gynaecic. Pron. she, her, hers.'
Phrases
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a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]
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a lovely lady garmented in white" [Shelley]
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earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]
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she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope]
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the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]