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1. An adult female person (as opposed to a man)
   "the woman kept house while the man hunted";
   - adult female
    
2. A female person who plays a significant role (wife, mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
   "he was faithful to his woman"
    
3. Women as a class
   "woman is the glory of creation";
   - womanhood, fair sex
    
4. [informal] A human female employed to do housework
   "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"; "the cleaning woman will clean the carpet";
   - charwoman [Brit, archaic], char [Brit, informal], cleaning woman, cleaning lady, charlady [Brit]

Derived forms: women

Type of: adult, class, cleaner, female, female person, grownup, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

Antonym: man

Part of: womankind, womenkind

Encyclopedia: Woman, Wake Up