woman

Roget category 374

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#374. Woman

noun

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].

verb

feminize.

adjective

female, she- — feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely — womanish, effeminate, unmanly — gynecic^†, gynaecic^†.
Pron.
she, her, hers.
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phrase

a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; a lovely lady garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan [Goethe]; earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es de vidrio la mujer [Sp.] — she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope]; the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat.] [Vergil]; woman is the lesser man" [Tennyson].

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