Woman
A woman (/ˈwʊmən/), pl: women (/ˈwɪmɨn/) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Unlike men, women are typically capable of giving birth.
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... The story of Lucretia shows that the more virtuous a woman was, the more appealing she was to potential adulterers ... The way a man or woman presented him or herself in public, and the persons they interacted with caused others to pass judgment on their pudicitia ... For example, if a woman was seen associating with men other than her husband people would make a negative judgment on her pudicitia ...
... mythology, Erathipa is a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman contained within Erathipa are the souls of dead children which can inhabit the bodies of fertile ... the souls of the children imprisoned in it watch for a woman to pass by so that they may be reborn in her ... to be old, and walk as if leaning on a stick, crying "Don't come to me, I am an old woman!" The idea implicit in all these rites, is that certain stones have the ...
... While women account for more than half of university graduates in several OECD countries, they receive only 30% of tertiary degrees granted in science and engineering fields, and women account for only 25% to 35% of researchers in most OECD countries. ...
... was always described as being a plain woman ... Even though Barry was "the ugliest Woman" in the world off stage, wrote the anonymous A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), she was "the finest Woman in the World upon the Stage." ...
... Every person has a woman that is their mother ... Therefore, there is a woman that is the mother of every person ... is fallacious to conclude that there is one woman who is the mother of all people ...
More definitions of "woman":
- (noun): An adult female person (as opposed to a man).
Example: "The woman kept house while the man hunted"
Synonyms: adult female
- (noun): A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man.
Example: "He was faithful to his woman"
- (noun): Women as a class.
Example: "Woman is the glory of creation"
Synonyms: womanhood
Famous quotes containing the word woman:
“No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, some present momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)