■ noun ( plural women )
1》 an adult human female.
2》 a female worker or employee.
↘a female domestic help.
3》 a wife or lover.
Phrases
the little ~ a condescending way of referring to one's wife.
~ of letters a female scholar or author.
~ of the streets euphemistic, dated a prostitute.
~ to ~ in a direct and frank way between two women.
Derivatives
~less adjective
~like adjective
~liness noun
~ly adjective
Origin
OE wīfmon , -man (see wife , man ), a formation peculiar to Engl., the ancient word being wife .