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Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. woman
  2. adult female

What Google Knows

A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a woman is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and fertile women are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause.

Related Definition

  1. broad:

    adj Wide in extent or scope.

    adj Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

    adj Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

    adj Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

    adj Plain; evident.

    adj General rather than specific.

    adj (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.

    adj Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

    adj (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

    adj (of an accent) Strongly regional.

    adj (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

    n (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

    n A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

    n (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

    n (film, television) A kind of floodlight.

    n (slang, archaic) A playing card.

    n (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

    n (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.

    n A surname.


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