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woman

/woom-uhn/US // ˈwʊm ən //UK // (ˈwʊmən) //

女人

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n.名词 noun
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    plural wom·en [wim-in]. /ˈwɪm ɪn/.

    • : an adult female person.Compare man, girl.
    • : a female employee or representative: A woman from the real estate agency called.
    • : Informal. a wife.a female lover or sweetheart.
    • : Older Use:Usually Offensive. a female employee who cleans a house, cooks, etc.; housekeeper: My woman won't be here till next Tuesday.
    • : a female attendant to a lady of rank: Your woman informed us of your travel plans.
    • : the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness: He has always loved and admired the woman in her.
    • : women collectively: Woman is no longer subordinate to man.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to put into the company of a woman.
    • : to equip or staff with women.
    • : Obsolete. to cause to act or yield like a woman.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : of women; womanly.
    • : female: a woman plumber.

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Examples

  • Many women have borne the brunt of care work during the pandemic in ways that impact their work.

  • I know there are more women who have been employed and minorities than ever before.

  • More news below, including Citigroup’s decision to name Jane Fraser its next CEO—the first woman to head a major Wall Street bank.

  • Twelve of the top 100 films were directed by woman, four times the number of 2007 and more than twice the five films of 2018.

  • That article described the woman involved in the encounter with Mallott with sufficient detail to identify her as Jody Potts.

  • A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

  • In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.

  • It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

  • While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

  • Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.

  • She was also supposed to be the original or model of “the Virtuous Woman” therein portrayed!

  • The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.

  • There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.

  • I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!

  • Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.