woman

noun

An adult female human.

noun

Women considered as a group; womankind.

noun

An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination.

noun

A female servant or subordinate.

noun

A wife.

noun

A female lover or sweetheart.

idiom

((one’s) own woman) Independent in judgment or action.

idiom

(to a woman) Without exception.

noun

Formerly, the side of a British penny on which was the figure of Britannia, the other having the king’s head: as “man or woman?”—that is, heads or tails?