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UK
/wˈʊmən/
]
[ US /ˈwʊmən/ ]
[ US /ˈwʊmən/ ]
NOUN
-
women as a class
it's an insult to American womanhood
woman is the glory of creation
the fair sex gathered on the veranda -
a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
he was faithful to his woman -
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
the woman kept house while the man hunted -
a human female employed to do housework
the char will clean the carpet
I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write
How To Use woman In A Sentence
- In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
- The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
- King was eight years old when he was slapped by a white woman in a downtown Atlanta department store and insulted with a racial slur.
- Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
- He had just received my check and was apoplectic with rage, declaring he never wanted to see or have anything to do with ‘that woman’ - meaning me - again.
- Hillary's woman problem is that her reach among women over 30 I don't want to use the term older women is unlikely to change much. Hillary's Woman Problem Part II
- The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
- A 19-year-old man was killed and four other people, including a pregnant woman, were injured when their car was riddled with bullets by the soldiers.
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.