woman noun

ADJ. young | middle-aged | elderly, old, older The thief tricked his way into an elderly woman's home. Older women often have difficulty conceiving. | adult, grown The little girl she remembered was now a grown woman. | married | single, unattached, unmarried | widowed | divorced | pregnant | childless | business (also businesswoman), career, professional, working | non-working | attractive, beautiful, good-looking, handsome, pretty | desirable | well-dressed | plain, ugly | motherly | hysterical | decent, good | evil, wicked | battered a hostel for battered women | the other Jean Menckes plays the president's wife and Fiona Handley plays the other woman (= the one the President is having an affair with).

VERB + WOMAN depict, portray, present, show We want to change the way women are depicted in the media. | limit, reduce Women are limited to the more poorly paid jobs. Women are reduced to merely playing a passive role.

PHRASES the position/role of women There were important changes in the position of women in society. | a woman of the world He saw her as a woman of the world who could offer him advice. | women's lib/liberation (becoming old-fashioned) The freedom to wear trousers became a symbol of women's liberation. | the women's movement, women's rights

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