woman > define

An adult female person (as opposed to a man. )
- usage: "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
- synonyms: adult female
A female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man.
- usage: "he was faithful to his woman"
A human female employed to do housework.
- usage: "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"
- synonyms: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady
Women as a class.
- usage: "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"
- synonyms: womanhood, fair sex

(v.t.) To furnish with or unite to, a woman.
(n.) A female attendant or servant.
(n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
(v.t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
(v.t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
(n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary