Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one-woman
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
show
▪ She also appeared in her own one-woman show in Yiddish, Hello, Molly!
▪ Yoko Ono's one-woman show at the Indica Gallery received a plug.
▪ I had wanted to write a one-woman show.
▪ He died on the opening night of my one-woman show Re:Joyce.
▪ She's had the self-same panic attack before starting a one-woman show.
▪ And there's the one-woman show.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ FOR the time being Clint is a one-woman man.
▪ I had wanted to write a one-woman show.
▪ Moving in, she was a one-woman gang whose contributions went well beyond the maternal.
▪ She also appeared in her own one-woman show in Yiddish, Hello, Molly!
▪ She is exciting a lot of comment with a one-woman exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
▪ The original one-woman play, which starred! bold!
▪ Yoko Ono's one-woman show at the Indica Gallery received a plug.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-woman
one-woman \one-woman\ adj. Designed for or restricted to a single person; same as one-man, but used when the person in question is female, or to avoid sexist language; as, a one-woman submarine; a one-woman show.
Syn: one-man, one-person.
WordNet
one-woman
adj. designed for or restricted to a single person; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent" [syn: one-man(a), one-person(a), one-woman(a)]