woman
US: /ˈwʊmən/
UK: /wˈʊmən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
woman /'wumən/- danh từ, số nhiều women
- đàn bà, phụ nữ
- a single woman: một người đàn bà không lấy chồng
- a woman of the world: người đàn bà lịch duyệt
- giới đàn bà, nữ giới
- woman's right: nữ quyền
- kẻ nhu nhược (như đàn bà)
- tính chất đàn bà, tình cảm đàn bà, nữ tính
- something of the woman in his character: một cái gì có tính chất đàn bà trong tính tình của anh ta
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) bà hầu cận (của vua, của một nhà quý tộc)
- (định ngữ) nữ, đàn bà, gái
- a woman artist: một nữ nghệ sĩ
- a woman friend: một bạn gái
- to make an honest woman of someone
- (xem) honest
- tied to woman's apron-strings
- bị đàn bà xỏ mũi
- woman's wit
- linh tính, sự khôn ngoan
- a woman with a past
- người đàn bà đã từng trốn chúa lộn chồng
- đàn bà, phụ nữ
Advanced English dictionary
1 [C] an adult female human being: men, women and children + a 24-year-old woman + I prefer to see a woman doctor. + women drivers2 [U] female human beings in general: (informal) She's all woman! (= has qualities that are typical of women)
3 [C] (in compounds) a woman who comes from the place mentioned or whose job or interest is connected with the thing mentioned: an Englishwoman + a businesswoman + a Congresswoman + a horsewoman - GENDER
4 [C] a female worker, especially one who works with her hands: We used to have a woman to do the cleaning.
5 [sing.] (old-fashioned, spoken) a rude way of addressing a female person in an angry or important way: Be quiet, woman!
6 [C] (sometimes disapproving) a wife or sexual partner: He's got a new woman in his life.
See also -
Idioms: be your own man / woman to act or think independently, not following others or being ordered: Working for herself meant that she could be her own woman.
more at HEART, HELL, HONEST, MAN n., PART n., POSSESSED, SUBSTANCE, WORLD
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 female, lady; girl:
Elvira was the first woman to be elected to the board.
2 wife, spouse, bride, lady-love, sweetheart, lady, girl, girlfriend, mistress, concubine, mate, helpmeet, helpmate, partner, Colloq sweetie, better half, little woman, the missis or missus, old lady or woman, ball and chain, Slang trouble and strife:
In this scene, Porgy tells Bess that she is his woman, now and forever.
3 lass, maid, maiden, miss, lassie, Slang gal, dame, bird, skirt, chick, bit of fluff, broad, piece (of work), number, baggage, moll, popsy:
The soldiers went into town to try to find some women for an evening's entertainment.
4 domestic, housekeeper, maid, cleaning woman or lady, maidservant, chambermaid, handmaiden, abigail, lady-in-waiting, Brit charwoman, Colloq Brit char, daily:
They have a woman who comes in every other day.
Collocation
ADJ.
young | middle-aged | elderly, old, older
The thief tricked his way into an elderly woman's home. Older women often have difficulty conceiving.
| adult, grown
The little girl she remembered was now a grown woman.
| married | single, unattached, unmarried | widowed | divorced | pregnant | childless | business
(also
businesswoman
),
career, professional, working | non-working | attractive, beautiful, good-looking, handsome, pretty | desirable | well-dressed | plain, ugly | motherly | hysterical | decent, good | evil, wicked | battered
a hostel for battered women
| the other
Jean Menckes plays the president's wife and Fiona Handley plays the other woman (= the one the President is having an affair with).
VERB + WOMAN
depict, portray, present, show
We want to change the way women are depicted in the media.
| limit, reduce
Women are limited to the more poorly paid jobs. Women are reduced to merely playing a passive role.
PHRASES
the position/role of women
There were important changes in the position of women in society.
| a woman of the world
He saw her as a woman of the world who could offer him advice.
| women's lib/liberation
(becoming old-fashioned) The freedom to wear trousers became a symbol of women's liberation.
| the women's movement, women's rights
Concise dictionary
womans|womanned|womanning|women'wʊmənnoun
+an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
+women as a class
+a human female who does housework
+a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
