Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - woman

~ n plural women 1 »FEMALE« an adult female person  (I was talking to a woman I met on the flight. | married women | a woman priest/driver etc)  (How long will it be until we have a woman President? | women's clothes/organization etc)  (Kate works for a popular women's magazine.)  (- see man1) 2 »FORM OF ADDRESS« spoken a rude way of addressing a woman when you are angry, annoyed etc  (Pull yourself together, woman!) 3 another woman/the other woman informal a woman that a man is having a sexual relationship with, even though he is married to someone else  (I'm sure he's got another woman..) 4 »GENERAL TERM« formal women in general  (A woman's work is never done.) 5 »PARTNER« also the old woman spoken expressions meaning your girlfriend or wife, which many women find offensive  (Did he bring his woman with him?) 6 businesswoman/spokeswoman etc a woman who has a particular kind of job  (a spokeswoman for the charity) 7 be your own woman to make your own decisions and be in charge of your own life, without depending on anyone else 8 woman of easy virtue/woman of the night old-fashioned a prostitute1 (1) 9 »SERVANT« a female servant or person who does works for you in your house  (- see also old woman, make an honest woman of honest (8), man/woman of the world world1 (26), wine, women and song wine1 (3))