1. [n]  women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"
2. [n]  a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet"
3. [n]  
4. [n]  (informal) a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

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1. \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
   wimman, wifmon, AS. w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]f woman,
   wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.]
   1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
      distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
      person.
            Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.
            And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
            made he a woman.                      --Gen. ii. 22.
            I have observed among all nations that the women
            ornament themselves more than the men; that,
            wherever found, they are the same kind, civil,
            obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay
            and cheerful, timorous and modest.    --J. Ledyard.
   2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
            Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.
   3. A female attendant or servant. `` By her woman I sent your
      message.'' --Shak.
   {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
      to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.
   

2. \Wom"an\, v. t.
   1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
      --Daniel.
   2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.
   3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] ``To have him
      see me woman'd.'' --Shak.
   

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was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel" (1 Cor. 11:3, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Ex. 15:20), Deborah (Judg. 4:4, 5), Huldah (2 Kings 22:14), Noadiah (Neh. 6:14), Anna (Luke 2:36, 37), and the daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:8, 9). Women are forbidden to teach publicly (1 Cor. 14:34, 35; 1 Tim. 2:11, 12). Among the Hebrews it devolved upon women to prepare the meals for the household (Gen. 18:6; 2 Sam. 13:8), to attend to the work of spinning (Ex. 35:26; Prov. 31:19), and making clothes (1 Sam. 2:19; Prov. 31:21), to bring water from the well (Gen. 24:15; 1 Sam. 9:11), and to care for the flocks (Gen. 29:6; Ex. 2:16).

The word "woman," as used in Matt. 15:28, John 2:4 and 20:13, 15, implies tenderness and courtesy and not disrespect. Only where revelation is known has woman her due place of honour assigned to her.