An adult female person (as opposed to a man):
— The woman kept house while the man hunted.

synonym: adult female.

Roget 131: adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism; adultness etc. adj.; manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life.    man etc. 373; woman etc. 374; adult, no chicken.    ... show more

Roget 962: libertine; voluptuary etc. 954.1; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell^†, fast man; intrigant^†, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard^†, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard^†; chartered libertine.    adulteress, advoutress^†, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie [Fr.]; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece [Fr.]; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull^†, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean^†, mopsy^†, slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue etc. (unchaste) 961; wanton, fornicatress^†; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia^†, Lais, lorette^†, cocotte^†, petite dame, grisette^†; demimonde; chippy [U.S.]; sapphist^†; spiritual wife; white slave.    concubine, mistress, doxy^†, chere amie [Fr.], bona roba [It].    pimp, procurer; pander, pandar^†; bawd, conciliatrix^†, procuress^†, mackerel, wittol^†.    ... show more

Dutch: dame, juffrouw, mevrouw, tante, vrouw
Polish: kobita, kolesiówa, facetka, kolesiana, gościówa, babka, klientka

A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man.

Polish: kobieta, stara, baba, kobita

A human female employed to do housework:
— I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write.

synonyms: char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman.

Dutch: hulp in de huishouding, werkster, schoonmaakster, poetsvrouw
Polish: ukrainka

Women as a class:
— It's an insult to American womanhood.
— Woman is the glory of creation.

synonyms: fair sex, womanhood.

Roget 374: woman, she, her, female, petticoat.    feminality^†, muliebrity^†; womanhood etc. (adolescence) 131.    womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.    dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs.    lady, donna belle [Sp.], matron, dowager, goody, gammer^†; Frau [G.], frow^†, Vrouw [Du.], rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife etc. (marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood^†.    bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.    nymph, wench, grisette^†; girl etc. (youth) 129.    [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean^†, henhussy^†, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.    [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.    gynecaeum^†.    estrogen, oestrogen.    consanguinity etc. 166 [Female relatives], paternity etc. 11.    lesbian, dyke [Slang].    ... show more

Dutch: het schone geslacht, gemalin, echtgenote, vrouw