woman : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: woman	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woman n an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" Synonym(s): woman, adult female Antonym(s): adult male, man 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" Antonym(s): man 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" Synonym(s): charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" Synonym(s): womanhood, woman, fair sex
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. w[c6]fmann, w[c6]mmann; w[c6]f woman, wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.] 1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22. 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. --J. Ledyard. 2. The female part of the human race; womankind. Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray. 3. A female attendant or servant. [bd] By her woman I sent your message.[b8] --Shak. {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woman \Wom"an\, v. t. 1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. --Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] [bd]To have him see me woman'd.[b8] --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
woman A replacement for the {Unix} {man} {documentation} browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on {386BSD}, {OSF}, {Apollo} {Domain/OS}, {BSD}, {HP-UX}, {IBM} {RS-6000}, {Irix}, {Linux}, {Solaris}, {Sony} {NEWS}, {SunOS}, {Ultrix}, {Unicos}. Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul 1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name woman-1.157. {FTP USC, USA (ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}. {FTP Imperial, UK (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/woman-1.157/)}. (1995-03-21)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Woman was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam. 2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1 Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16). The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.