woman

woman englannista suomeksi

1. siivooja

2. nainen

3. naissuku

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woman englanniksi

1. An adult female human.

2. (quote-book)

3. (quote-journal)

4. (quote-song)|album=Chaka|title=I’m Every Woman|artist=(w)|passage=Cause I'm every woman / It's all in me

5. {{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Kate Welsh|title=Substitute Daddy|isbn=1459232844

6. (seemoreCites)

7. All female humans collectively; womankind.

8. (RQ:Haggard She)

9. (RQ:Hough Purchase Price) it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

10. 1972, Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman," first line:

I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore

11. 1997, Bob Grant, ''Let's Be Heard'', page 42:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

12. 2011, ''Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In'', page 109:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

13. A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

14. {{quote-book

15. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Christopher Paolini|title=Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three|isbn=9780375826726|page=549

16. {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Oisin McGann|title=Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9780141348704

17. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

18. 1914, (w), ''Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays'', chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":

And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

19. A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (qualifier)

20. 2004, Hyveth Williams, ''Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount'', page 70:

Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman. I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

21. A female attendant or servant.

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8)

23. To staff with female labor.

24. (quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...)Cox and Baylis,(...)for Taylor (engraver)|Charles Taylor,(nb...)|year=1813|volume=XIV|page=683|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4nfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA683|passage=(..)he should prove, from the testimony of the most experienced seamen, that the vessel was, if not, strictly speaking, sufficiently ''manned'', yet that she was sufficiently ''manned'' and ''womanned''. The Gypsey was a vessel of 43 tons burden, and there were on board two able seamen and the Captain’s wife, who was a very good ''sailor'';

25. 2010, Julia Glass, ''The Widower's Tale'', page 77

The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”

26. To make effeminate or womanish.

27. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)

28. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

29. (RQ:Shakespeare Othello)

30. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

31. (lbl) Of or relating to a woman/women; female.

32. (quote-book)|title=The British Prime Minister|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=9780822306344|text=But of course Britain since 1979 has had a woman prime minister, while no woman has ever come near to being president of the United States.

33. (quote-book)|author2=The Staff of The New York Times|title=Finish The Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=9780358407829|text=You can't spend months studying the history of the suffrage movement without gaining a new appreciation for the grit and gumption it takes to be a powerful woman leader.

34. (obsolete form of), (obsolete spelling of)

35. (quote-book)|volume=1|author=Bedřich Všemír hrabě z Berchtoldu|authorlink=Friedrich von Berchtold|publisher=Jos. Krause|page=142|passage=Škrobu welmi podobná hmota zdá se býti womanina (inulinum), kterauž P. Vauquelin w kořenu Womanu lekařského (''Inula helenium'') nalezl.|t=A substance similar to starch seems to be the elecampine (inulinum) which already P. Vauquelin has found in the root of the officinal inula (''Inula helenium'').

36. (alt form)

37. inula, elecampane (''Inula'' spp., especially ''helenium'')