Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Woman

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