woman

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An adult female human.
2. n. Women considered as a group; womankind: "Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color” ( Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
3. n. An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination: an Englishwoman; congresswoman; a saleswoman.
4. n. Feminine quality or aspect; womanliness.
5. n. A female servant or subordinate.
6. n. Informal A wife.
7. n. Informal A female lover or sweetheart. See Usage Notes at lady, man, person.
8. idiom. (one's) own woman Independent in judgment or action: She has always been her own woman.
9. idiom. to a woman Without exception.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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?
2. n. An adult female of the human race; figuratively, the female sex; human females collectively. See lady, 5.
3. n. The qualities which characterize womanhood; tenderness; gentleness; also, when used of a man, effeminacy; weakness.
4. n. A female attendant on a person of rank (used in such a connection as to show the special sense intended).
5. n. A woman experienced in the ways of the world; a woman engrossed in society or fashionable life.
6. To act the part of a woman: with an indefinite it.
7. To cause to act like a woman; subdue to weakness like a woman.
8. To unite to, or accompany by, a woman.
9. To call (a person) “woman” in an abusive way.

Wiktionary

1. n. An adult female human.
2. n. A wife (sometimes a fiance or girlfriend)
3. v. To man with female labor.
4. v. transitive To make effeminate or womanish.
5. v. transitive To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
2. n. The female part of the human race; womankind.
3. n. A female attendant or servant.
4. v. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
5. v. rare To make effeminate or womanish.
6. v. rare To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
2. n. a human female employed to do housework
3. n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
4. n. women as a class