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Meaning woman meaning

What does woman mean?
Definitions in simple English

woman

A female human. My wife is a good woman.

woman

(= adult female) an adult female person (as opposed to a man) the woman kept house while the man hunted 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 (= womanhood, fair sex) women as a class it's an insult to American womanhood woman is the glory of creation the fair sex gathered on the veranda (= char) 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

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Simple sentences

A very pleasant young woman waited on me in the department store.
The old woman fell and could not get up.
A woman asked me for directions.
He was attracted to the woman.
She is a woman of great beauty.
She's a tough woman.
She is a wonderful woman.
She is a quiet woman.
The woman stood up from the chair and looked towards the door.
The busy woman ignored the ringing telephone.
I am a woman.
A woman is reading a book in the library.
Why would you marry a woman if you like men?
How to arouse a woman's desire?
Look how they all speak ill of me behind my back because I married a woman thirty years younger than me.
The bus was empty except for one elderly woman.
A woman appeared from behind a tree.
We look on her as a loose woman.
Bob made room for an old woman on the bus.
The woman on the bench is Mrs. Brown.
Peter was fed up with childish girls and wanted to meet a really mature woman.
In the bus, a boy made room for an old woman.
It had the head of a woman, the body of a lion, the wings of a bird, and the tail of a serpent.
The woman who is sitting on the sofa is my grandmother.
Nobody is equal to this young woman in the field of music.
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
Maybe I will settle down with a woman.
Mary played the role of an old woman in the play.
A woman fell from a ship into the sea.
The old woman was nearly run over.
The old woman lends money at the rate of three percent.
The woman was so surprised as to be speechless.

Movie subtitles

Do you guys die because of a woman?
That woman.
I shouldn't have gotten involved with that woman.
Listen to me woman!
In ancient New York three men were about to cut off a Mormon woman's cli- toris.
I've never hit a woman in my life.
With a woman.
WOMAN?
Wait, so he had a woman without me knowing?!
The Heavenly Fragrance to greet a woman.
Are you thinking about that woman earlier?
Who exactly is that woman?
Oh, right, maybe that woman would know.
That.. that woman?
Want a woman?
You should know that a man who trusts a woman isn't a real man.
That stuck-up woman at the General's asked if I was a Moor! That's why.
A French woman?
The Lieutenant is afraid of a woman.
Is it another woman?
You don't know what it's like to be in love, to be married, to raise a son with. With the woman you love.
Looks like our only option is to ask that woman.
There was a woman there, and she looked just like you.
That woman's worth millions.
The Woman - whose sin was motherhood.
The woman - now a star of great prominence.
Well, a beautiful woman, need not necessarily be true to her husband.
Anyway, if I wanted info out of you, I'd just..beat it out of you. Get off me, you lunatic woman!
And I always thought it was one of those things where, you know, Stiles is just, like, he's just a one-woman kind of guy.
This woman's love is really unique.
There are a lot of beautiful woman there.
Don't just see me as a woman.
The South calls me the woman from the North. You son-of-a-bitch, you met the right person today. You. actually caused my beloved to be deeply tormented?
Take this wasted woman and get her out of here.
I'm not an easy woman.
Why is this woman stuck onto a guard?
What kind of relationship do they have? With a woman.
I need to meet that woman and ask her.

News and current affairs

The law would permit marital rape, limit women's movements - say, for work or study - without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
She is seeking to become the first woman President of the French Republic.
At long last, Angela Merkel is Germany's new - and first woman - Chancellor.
Tymoshenko, who has survived three assassination attempts, is not the type of woman to surrender her campaign on a technicality.
One of every ten professors in Europe is a woman.
A woman in Yemen will on average give birth to more than 7 children in her lifetime.
Brazil's total fertility rate (average number of births per woman) has come down sharply as well, from 2.7 in 1990 to 2.2 in 2001.
Eighty years after the republic's founding the trouble with headscarved women is that they do not fit into the picture of the ideal modern Turkish woman.
Average fertility rates in Europe and North America, for example, have fallen to 1.5 to 3 births per woman.
By contrast, average fertility rates in the world's poorest countries--say, Somalia, Yemen, and Uganda--are vastly higher, reaching more than seven births per woman.
In Egypt, for example, fertility rates declined from 4.8 to 2.9 children per woman in the last 15 years.
Fertility rates among Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews are exceptionally high, averaging six births per woman.
But in the 1950s and 1960s, before the introduction of generous child allowances to large families, fertility rates among the same group were significantly lower--just three children per woman.
Moreover, as a result of the benefits, fertility rates among Israeli Bedouins have remained probably the highest in the world, at nearly eight children per woman.
It took six days to get the woman to a hospital in Jalalabad though it was not very far from where she lived.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
KABUL - Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.
There was also Gulnaz, a young woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped by a relative (she was recently released after a presidential pardon, but may be forced to marry her attacker).
The husband of another young woman, Aisha, cut off her nose and ears when she ran away.
Third, family pride and honor are deemed more important than a woman's individual well-being and safety.
For example, if family members beat or abuse a woman, she has few options.
Similarly, in Nairobi, Miringo Kinyanjui, another woman entrepreneur, is supplying unrefined - and more nutritious - maize and wheat flour.
Moreover, this summer, the writer and literary critic Sarah Danius became the first woman in 200 years to serve as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel laureate in literature.
Frustrated, the woman gives in.
Hindu religious law, for example, allows a woman to claim an equal share in her parents' wealth, but few exercise this right.
The irony is that, unless far-reaching changes are made soon, Mother India could eventually be the only woman left in the country.
If elected, she would be South Korea's first woman president, and, for her rivals, her dominant position in the race is an uncomfortable but unassailable fact.
Others take a flagrantly sexist stance, arguing that a woman president would be a non-starter as long as the North Korean regime continues to threaten national security.
If she does, she will be Asia's most powerful woman, perhaps the most powerful in the world, at the end of next year.
In Afghanistan as a whole, a woman dies of pregnancy-related causes every 27 minutes - and perhaps even more frequently, because many such deaths go unrecorded.
Merkel will reintroduce the warmth that has been missing under Schroeder, but she will not become America's yes-woman.
This is a remarkable development: the idea that a Dalit woman could lead India has been inconceivable for 3,000 years.
As a non-Muslim, Indian woman, I was able to travel through the region without any fear and received warm support from local residents.
The late American politician Adlai Stevenson once said that the average man (or woman) was a great deal better than average.

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