woman
women in families FAMILY
the two sexes SEX
see also CHILD, MAN
- an adult female person: woman (plural women), (formal) lady (plural ladies)
Is there a lady here called Mrs. Richards?
- a young adult woman: young woman
- what you call a woman when you talk to her: (formal) madam (AmE ma'am)
Excuse me, madam.
- a person who has the physical characteristics of a woman or girl is female; noun: female
the female sex
- being or behaving like a woman: feminine; noun (U): femininity
feminine behaviour
※ titles before a woman's name
- used as a title before a married woman's name: Mrs
- used as a title before the name of a woman who is not married: Miss
- used as a title before a married or single woman's name: Ms
Dear Ms Anderson ※¦
- the title for sb who is a doctor: Dr (short for Doctor)
- a title for a woman who has a high social position (usually with a lot of money or property): Lady
Lady Bracknall
※ women in relationships
- the person that a man is married to: wife (plural wives)
- the person that sb lives with, as if they were married: partner
- if a man has formally promised to marry a woman, she is his fiancée
- a woman with whom a man has a romantic and/or sexual relationship; a female friend of another woman: girlfriend
- a woman or man who is having a sexual relationship with sb, outside marriage: lover; a woman in this kind of relationship: mistress
- a woman who is not married is single, unmarried
- a woman who is divorced (= was married but is no longer married): divorcee
- a woman whose husband has died: widow
- a woman who is sexually attracted to other women: lesbian, gay; adjectives: lesbian, gay
※ love, sex and marriage LOVE, SEX, MARRY
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