woman

About 139.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An adult female human.

   the first woman president of Spain

2. noun All female humans collectively; womankind.
3. noun A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
4. noun A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
5. noun A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
6. noun A female attendant or servant.
7. verb To staff with female labor.
8. verb To make effeminate or womanish.

Similar words

girl gal maiden damsel female lady gentlewoman mademoiselle beldam wench

Often followed by

who in of is and to was with had

Word family

womanless women