Woman

n.	1.
	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. Woman hater one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. - Swift.
v. t.	1.	To act the part of a woman in; - with indefinite it.
	2.	To make effeminate or womanish.
	3.	To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Noun	1.	woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" Synonyms: adult female Antonyms: adult male, man - an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	2.	woman - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation" Synonyms: womanhood
	3.	woman - a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, char
	4.	woman - 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" Antonyms: man - a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"

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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 Imperial, UK.

To see a woman in your dream, represents nurturance, passivity, caring nature, and love. It refers to your own female aspects or may also represent your mother. Alternatively, it may indicate temptation and guilt. If you know the woman, then it may symbolize the concerns and feelings you have about her. To see an old woman in your dream, indicates aging and growing old. To see a group of women talking in your dream, refers to some gossip. To see a pregnant women in your dream, symbolizes abundant wealth.Eve, Frau, adult, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, distaff side, domina, donna, dowager, doxy, fair sex, female sex, feme, feme covert, femininity, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, grown man, grownup, helpmate, helpmeet, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lass, legalis homo, little, major, man, married woman, matron, mature man, milady, mistress, no chicken, old lady, old woman, paramour, playmate, rib, second sex, softer sex, squaw, unofficial wife, vrouw, wahine, weaker sex, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolks

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