1. woman(n = noun.person) adult female - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
is a kind of adult, grownup, female, female person
has parts: adult female body, woman's body
has particulars: black woman, white woman, yellow woman, amazon, virago, maenad, bachelor girl, bachelorette, baggage, ball-breaker, ball-buster, b-girl, bar girl, bas bleu, bluestocking, bridesmaid, maid of honor, broad, cat, cinderella, coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper, dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, deb, debutante, divorcee, grass widow, ex, ex-wife, dominatrix, donna, delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren, temptress, eyeful, geisha, geisha girl, fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, girl, girl, girlfriend, lady friend, girlfriend, gold digger, gravida, heroine, inamorata, jezebel, jilt, lady, maenad, materfamilias, matriarch, matriarch, matron, mestiza, fancy woman, kept woman, mistress, mother figure, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nullipara, houri, nymph, nymphet, old woman, bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl, shiksa, shikse, beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart, sylph, unmarried woman, vestal, wac, wave, widow, widow woman, married woman, wife, wonder woman
Antonym: man
Derived forms noun womanhood3, noun womanhood2, noun womanhood1, verb womanise1, verb womanize2, adjective womanly1
2. woman(n = noun.person) - 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"
is a kind of female, female person
Antonym: man
Derived forms verb womanise1, verb womanize1
3. woman(n = noun.person) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman - 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"
is a kind of cleaner
4. woman(n = noun.group) fair sex, womanhood - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"
is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
is a member of womankind
Derived forms noun womanhood3, noun womanhood1
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. [1913 Webster]
"Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible." [1913 Webster]
"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman." [1913 Webster]
"I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest." [1913 Webster]
2. The female part of the human race; womankind. [1913 Webster]
"Man is destined to be a prey to woman." [1913 Webster]
3. A female attendant or servant. Shak. [1913 Webster]
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. [1913 Webster]
2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. Shak. [1913 Webster]
woman, n. (pl. women)
1 an adult human female.
2 the female sex; any or an average woman (how does woman differ from man?).
3 a wife or female sexual partner.
4 (prec. by the) emotions or characteristics traditionally associated with women (brought out the woman in him).
5 a man with characteristics traditionally associated with women.
6 (attrib.) female (woman driver; women friends).
7 (as second element in comb.) a woman of a specified nationality, profession, skill, etc. (Englishwoman; horsewoman).
8 colloq. a female domestic help.
9 archaic or hist. a queen's etc. female attendant ranking below lady (woman of the bedchamber).
Idiom:
woman of the streets a prostitute. Women's Institute an organization of women in rural areas to meet regularly and participate in crafts, cultural activities, etc. women's lib colloq. = women's liberation. women's libber colloq. a supporter of women's liberation. women's liberation the liberation of women from inequalities and subservient status in relation to men, and from attitudes causing these. Women's Liberation (or Movement) a movement campaigning for women's liberation. women's rights rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men.
Derivative:
womanless adj. womanlike adj.
Etymology:
OE wifmon, -man (as WIFE, MAN), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being WIFE
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.
N libertine, voluptuary, 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, woman, woman of the town, streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece, 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, wanton, fornicatress, Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette, demimonde, chippy, sapphist, spiritual wife, white slave, concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba, pimp, procurer, pander, pandar, bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.
N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.
bionic woman, black woman, cleaning woman, comfort woman, disagreeable woman, enlisted woman, fancy woman, foolish woman, gay woman, honest woman, kept woman, lollipop woman, loose woman, married woman, old woman, point woman, scarlet woman, slovenly woman, stunt woman, unmarried woman, unpleasant woman, white woman, widow woman, woman chaser, woman hater, woman of the house, woman of the street, wonder woman, yellow woman, young woman
1. body(n = noun.body) organic structure, physical structure - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
is a kind of natural object
has parts: body substance, articulatory system, bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium, endocrine system, lymphatic system, systema lymphaticum, musculoskeletal system, nervous system, systema nervosum, respiratory system, systema respiratorium, sensory system, vascular system, cardiovascular system, circulatory system, caput, head, cervix, neck, body, torso, trunk, leg, arm, crotch, fork, pressure point
has particulars: life form, anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma, live body
Derived forms adjective bodily3, adjective bodily1
2. body(n = noun.group) - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
is a kind of social group
has particulars: public, christendom, christianity, church, college of cardinals, sacred college, administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization, corps, constituency, electoral college, school, college, university, faculty, staff, representation, colony, settlement, ulama, ulema, leaders, leadership, militia, membership, rank, occupational group, vocation, opposition, immigration, inspectorate, jury, panel, panel, venire, enrollment, registration, vote, diaspora
3. body(n = noun.body) dead body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake"
is a kind of natural object
has particulars: carcase, carcass, carrion, roadkill, cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff, mummy
Derived form verb body1
4. body(n = noun.object) - an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
is a kind of natural object
has particulars: chromosome, cellular inclusion, inclusion, inclusion body, mass, particle, subatomic particle
5. body(n = noun.body) torso, trunk - the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"
is a kind of body part
is a part of body, organic structure, physical structure
has parts: diaphragm, midriff, shoulder, articulatio humeri, shoulder, shoulder joint, serratus, serratus muscles, side, chest, pectus, thorax, middle, midriff, midsection, waist, waistline, belly, paunch, love handle, spare tire, hip, haunch, abdomen, belly, stomach, venter, back, dorsum, arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, buttock, cheek, loins
6. body(n = noun.group) - a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
is a kind of scheme, system
7. body(n = noun.attribute) consistence, consistency, eubstance - the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
is a kind of property
has particulars: gaseousness, viscosity, viscousness, thickness, thinness, hardness, softness, breakableness, unbreakableness, porosity, porousness, solidity, solidness
8. body(n = noun.communication) - the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short"
is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
is a part of narration, recital, yarn, address, speech
9. body(n = noun.attribute) - the main mass of a thing;
is a kind of mass
10. body(n = noun.artifact) soundbox - a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin);
is a kind of cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator
11. body(n = noun.artifact) - the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
is a kind of construction, structure
has particulars: bodywork, fuselage
body(v = verb.stative) personify - invest with or as with a body; give body to;
is one way to be, embody, personify
Derived form noun body3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. [1913 Webster]
"Absent in body, but present in spirit." [1913 Webster]
"For of the soul the body form doth take.
For soul is form, and doth the body make." [1913 Webster]
2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. [1913 Webster]
"Who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together?" [1913 Webster]
"The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince." [1913 Webster]
"Rivers that run up into the body of Italy." [1913 Webster]
"As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of “people”, or “nation”." [1913 Webster]
"Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper." [1913 Webster]
3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. [1913 Webster]
"Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." [1913 Webster]
4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. [1913 Webster]
"A dry, shrewd kind of a body." [1913 Webster]
5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. [1913 Webster]
"A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter." [1913 Webster]
6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity. [1913 Webster]
7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aëriform body. Huxley. [1913 Webster]
"By collision of two bodies, grind
The air attrite to fire." [1913 Webster]
8. Amount; quantity; extent. [1913 Webster]
9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. [1913 Webster]
10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. [1913 Webster]
11. The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body. [1913 Webster]
12. A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. [1913 Webster]
13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. [1913 Webster]
" Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color." [1913 Webster]
14. The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or aërocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. [1913 Webster]
"Imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown." [1913 Webster]
body, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal, whether dead or alive.
2 the trunk apart from the head and the limbs.
3 a the main or central part of a thing (body of the car; body of the attack). b the bulk or majority; the aggregate (body of opinion).
4 a a group of persons regarded collectively, esp. as having a corporate function (governing body). b (usu. foll. by of) a collection (body of facts).
5 a quantity (body of water).
6 a piece of matter (heavenly body).
7 colloq. a person.
8 a full or substantial quality of flavour, tone, etc., e.g. in wine, musical sounds, etc.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. foll. by forth) give body or substance to.
Idiom:
body-blow a severe setback. body-building the practice of strengthening the body, esp. shaping and enlarging the muscles, by exercise. body-colour an opaque pigment. body language the process of communicating through conscious or unconscious gestures and poses. body-line bowling Cricket persistent fast bowling on the leg side threatening the batsman's body. body odour the smell of the human body, esp. when unpleasant. body politic the nation or State as a corporate body. body scanner a scanning X-ray machine for taking tomograms of the whole body. body shop a workshop where repairs to the bodywork of vehicles are carried out. body stocking a woman's undergarment, usually made of knitted nylon, which covers the torso. body warmer a sleeveless quilted or padded jacket worn as an outdoor garment. in a body all together. keep body and soul together keep alive, esp. barely. over my dead body colloq. entirely without my assent.
Derivative:
-bodied adj. (in comb.) (able-bodied).
Etymology:
OE bodig, of unkn. orig.
N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.
N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.
N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.
N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.
acetone body, acute inclusion body encephalitis, administrative body, adult body, adult female body, adult male body, basal body temperature, basal body temperature method, basal body temperature method of family planning, black body, body and soul, body armor, body armour, body bag, body build, body count, body covering, body english, body fluid, body forth, body guard, body hair, body language, body length, body lotion, body louse, body odor, body odour, body of water, body of work, body pad, body part, body plethysmograph, body politic, body process, body servant, body shop, body snatcher, body stocking, body structure, body substance, body suit, body temperature, body type, body waste, body weight, cancer body, carotid body, celestial body, central body, child's body, ciliary body, complex body part, dead body, estraterrestrial body, external body part, female body, fruiting body, geniculate body, golgi body, governing body, heavenly body, human body, inclusion body, inclusion body encephalitis, inclusion body myositis, juvenile body, ketone body, lateral geniculate body, liquid body substance, live body, male body, malpighian body, mamillary body, mammillary body, man's body, material body, medial geniculate body, physical body, pineal body, pituitary body, platonic body, polar body, russell's body, solid body substance, striate body, subacute inclusion body encephalitis, torpedo body, vitreous body, woman's body