Citations:woman

Noun: an adult female human being



















 * 1828,, The Life and Travels of John Ledyard:
 * I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men














 * 2003, Alan Dundes, Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist, page 161:
 * It is true that in male initiation ritual, men pretend to give birth to other males and that the creation of Eve from Adam's body is a ritual reversal of biological reality, insofar as men are created from women's bodies, ...


 * 2012, Joan C. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (ISBN 0674058836):
 * Before separate spheres arose in the late eighteenth century, many women worked as blacksmiths, woodworkers, printers, tinsmiths, brewers, tavern keepers, shopkeepers, shoemakers, barbers, and shipwrights.

Noun: female human of any age

 * 2003, Tiffany Field, Touch, MIT Press (ISBN 9780262561563), page 56:
 * At all ages, beginning from birth, women have lower touch and pain thresholds than men, ...
 * 2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press (ISBN 9780415267052), page 37:
 * To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.
 * 2012, Maxwell Billieon, Ray J, Death of the Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must Know About Men Who Stray, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781451655254):
 * That meant that from birth, women were trained to get a husband who was well-bred by his parents and extended family to continue the family name.

Noun: female human, as contrasted with non-humans

 * 2010, Karlton B. Douglas, THE DRAGONHORN, Karlton B. Douglas
 * “could you embrace a woman, or elf, despoiled by another.” “I don't like that word: despoiled. One who is victim of a rape is not made less than they were, nor somehow tainted in any way,
 * 2016, David Gerspach, Broken Circle: Verdan Chronicles: Volume 4, Lulu.com (ISBN 9781483445083), page 206:
 * In a fit of rage she took a spear she held and thrust into his lower abdomen claiming that he would make love to no woman or elf ever again.

Noun: female non-human

 * without a directly preceding modifier
 * 2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC (ISBN 9780974435466), page 307:
 * One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.
 * 2014, Carolynn Gockel, Warriors: When the Newest Incarnation of Loki, Norse God of Mischief and Chaos Meets Science, What Could Go Wrong?:
 * one of the elves, a woman, protests.
 * 2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK (ISBN 9780141348704):
 * There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.


 * with a modifier
 * 2006, Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin: Book II -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, Henry Holt and Company (BYR) (ISBN 9781466803824):
 * “Maybe just elf women are that way. But I know it's the truth. I know! I've seen the women die.” “She's right,” said Seylin in the pause that followed. “Elf women are different from goblin women. They have a very hard time with childbirth, "


 * contrasted, with a modifier, with unmodified "woman" for a human woman
 * 2016, Joel Newsome, Elves, Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC (ISBN 9781502618528), page 44:
 * The elf woman begs her to leave 2 quarts (1.9 liters) of milk in a corner of her house every day so that she can feed her child. The woman promises to do what the elf woman asks, and when she awakens, she decides to keep her promise.


 * God
 * 2018, Theodore Ihejieto, The Existence, page 269:
 * The Existence is telling human beings that God was a woman and not a man, because God was Earth.

Verb: to staff with women: to serve, as women, in a position

 * 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 61:
 * Bella Velardi and Alice Hart were on the other side, next to the aisle. Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.