woman
Roget-categorie 374
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Woman
zelfstandig naamwoord
woman,
she,
her,
female,
petticoat.
feminality†,
muliebrity† —
womanhood
etc.
(adolescence)
131.
womankind —
the sex,
the fair —
fair sex,
softer sex —
weaker vessel.
dame,
madam,
madame,
mistress,
Mrs.
lady,
donna belle [Sp.],
matron,
dowager,
goody,
gammer† —
Frau [G.],
frow†,
Vrouw [Du.],
rani —
good woman,
good wife —
squaw —
wife
etc.
(marriage)
903 —
matronage,
matronhood†.
bachelor girl,
new woman,
feminist,
suffragette,
suffragist.
nymph,
wench,
grisette† —
girl
etc.
(youth)
129.
[Effeminacy]
sissy,
betty,
cot betty [U.S.],
cotquean†,
henhussy†,
mollycoddle,
muff,
old woman.
[Female animal]
hen,
bitch,
sow,
doe,
roe,
mare —
she goat,
Nanny goat,
tabita —
ewe,
cow —
lioness,
tigress —
vixen.
gynecaeum†.
estrogen,
oestrogen.
consanguinity
etc.
166
[Female relatives],
paternity
etc.
11.
lesbian,
dyke [Slang].
werkwoord
feminize.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
female,
she- —
feminine,
womanly,
ladylike,
matronly,
maidenly,
wifely —
womanish,
effeminate,
unmanly —
gynecic†,
gynaecic†.
Pron.
she,
her,
hers.
'
uitdrukking
a perfect woman nobly planned"
[Wordsworth];
a lovely lady garmented in white"
[Shelley];
das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan
[Goethe];
earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected"
[Lowell];
es de vidrio la mujer [Sp.] —
she moves a goddess and she looks a queen"
[Pope];
the beauty of a lovely woman is like music"
[G. Eliot];
varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat.]
[Vergil];
woman is the lesser man"
[Tennyson].
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