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) Array - 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