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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a career woman (=one whose job is very important to her)
▪ Career women tend to marry later.
a lucky man/woman/boy/girl
▪ Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
a man/woman etc named sth (=someone with a particular name)
▪ some guy named Bob Dylan
a man/woman of principle (=someone with strong moral ideas)
▪ He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
a married man/woman
▪ By 1957 a third of married women were working.
career woman
▪ independent career women
childless couple/woman/marriage
▪ It was a happy but childless marriage.
cleaning lady/woman (=a woman who cleans houses, offices etc as her job)
fancy woman
kept woman
like a man/woman possessedliterary (= with a lot of energy or violence)
loose woman
▪ a loose woman
mystery man/woman
▪ Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince?
old woman
prejudice against women/black people etc
▪ There is still a lot of prejudice against women in positions of authority.
scarlet woman
stunt woman
the man/woman/house etc of your dreams (=the perfect one for you)
▪ We can help you find the house of your dreams.
us women/men/teachers etc
▪ Life is hard for us women.
women's lib
women's movement
women's room
women's studies
women/men/residents etc only
▪ The car park is for staff only.
working women
▪ Many working women rely on relatives for childcare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Instead, black married women stopped having so many children; black unmarried women continued to have them as before.
▪ Like the black woman in a slave narrative, the Chicana remains here an abiding if sometimes invisible medium of exchange.
▪ Some Black women use bleaching creams.
▪ Ginger Montgomery is a black woman in her late 30s.
▪ Compensation comes later, though; their heavy bones make black women less likely to suffer from osteoporosis when they're older.
▪ I glanced at the young black woman beside me.
▪ Jane was squeezed beside the fattest black woman she'd ever seen, shaking like a jelly with continual mirth.
married
▪ In addition, unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities.
▪ The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds.
▪ Older married women are less likely than men to receive a National Insurance retirement pension in their own right.
▪ In those days married women didn't work, so for her it was the ideal solution.
▪ She admired married women, especially those with children, more than anyone else.
▪ How could he when she was still a married woman?
▪ A young married woman was removed from intensive care during the day and a third patient's condition was unchanged.
▪ There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching, and to make part-time teaching more attractive.
old
▪ He had held the paper as tightly as an old woman holds a rosary.
▪ Despite all the community agencies, there is no place to put a forsaken old woman.
▪ The room smelled of old woman.
▪ Helen, feeding the old woman mush on a spoon.
▪ An old woman who looked, as the flatterers said, remarkable.
▪ The old woman stalled the robbers in their search for the ring and gave them wine with sleeping medicine.
▪ An old woman ridiculous in the presence of desire.
▪ The old woman walked about two feet toward the car at the curb.
only
▪ A technician with Courtelle, 30-year-old Dawn is the only woman among the 50 auxiliary fire personnel at the site.
▪ The only woman ever elected governor of Texas was Miriam Ferguson in 1924.
▪ Portia however is not the only woman to have these traits, however.
▪ Upstairs the red-haired man was in bed with the only woman in the group.
▪ I find it disappointing now that when I go to a completion meeting, I am often the only woman there.
▪ She was the only woman there.
▪ My little Shelley, you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy.
other
▪ Between them Caroline and M have every quality I hate in other women.
▪ How we relate to other women.
▪ But there was no doubt that it was the other woman on the line.
▪ Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
▪ They added their prayers to those of the other women.
▪ There are other events for women only.
▪ She'd accused him of always looking at other women: looking, looking, as though for the next conquest.
▪ After all, the role of the other woman was hardly one she delighted in.
pregnant
▪ In February 1985 a young pregnant woman from Ballywilliam, Nenagh, Co.
▪ Also patron of the falsely accused, midwives, obstetricians, and pregnant women.
▪ The new edition includes a new chapter on smoking among pregnant women.
▪ He would never execute a pregnant woman, he said.
▪ Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women.
▪ Now I feel so unhappy and jealous when I see babies or pregnant women.
▪ The pregnant woman can not be isolated in her privacy.
young
▪ She was invariably polite to Gerald which was not always the case with young women.
▪ There were young women here too-female Halut-zim, evidently.
▪ Books were published in reply and arguments advanced in favour of young women.
▪ The easiest way to ensure this was to choose a very young woman, still in her teens.
▪ To be sure, there are more young men and women in this age group because of the 1960's baby boom.
▪ These young women have stopped feeling.
▪ But this was the real world, and young women like Shelley just didn't fit in with men like Miguelito.
▪ They seem fortunate to some because they are left to pursue young women without being caught in the coils of female sexuality.
■ VERB
marry
▪ Having to choose between living with their parents or getting married, most young women used to opt for marriage.
▪ He married a woman from the Washington area two weeks before his 1994 defeat.
▪ It would be much more sensible for you to marry a woman with money.
▪ The gigolo has married a rich woman whose husband abandoned her.
▪ The proportion of never-#married women under 50 who are cohabiting has trebled to three in 10 over this period.
▪ They are all young married women who followed their husbands out here.
▪ In the early 1970s only 7.5 % of married women were in paid employment.
▪ Most married women surveyed said they were not victims of love at first sight and not moved to marriage by romance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changed man/woman
▪ Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
▪ My father came back from the war a changed man.
▪ She returned from her travel a changed woman.
▪ But when he came home he was a changed man.
▪ He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
▪ He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
▪ He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
▪ Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
▪ Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a fallen woman
▪ She was a fallen woman, and her hair knew it.
▪ Whatever she can urge in mitigation, she is a fallen woman for the rest of her life.
a fine figure of a man/woman
▪ Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
a fine man/woman etc
▪ And he was a fine man, a good man.
▪ Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
▪ Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
▪ He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
▪ I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
▪ Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
▪ She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
▪ You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
a man/woman etc after my own heart
a man/woman etc of few words
▪ Bill Templeman was a man of few words.
▪ Blitherdick, usually a man of few words, had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
▪ He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
▪ He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
▪ He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
▪ I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
battered woman/wife/husband/baby etc
▪ It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
▪ Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
▪ Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
▪ The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
▪ The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
▪ The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
▪ They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
▪ We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
be a man/woman of the world
▪ Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
be your own man/woman
▪ She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
▪ Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
▪ Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
▪ At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
▪ But Erlich was his own man.
▪ He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
▪ He was his own man, after all.
▪ Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
▪ Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
▪ The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
▪ You can be your own man.
be/feel like a new man/woman
grown man/woman
▪ Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
▪ Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
▪ He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
▪ She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
▪ And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
▪ I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
▪ In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
▪ Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
▪ No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
▪ Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
▪ Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
▪ She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
make an honest woman (out) of sb
▪ If dishonoured her, must then make an honest woman of her?
man/woman of many parts
man/woman of substance
▪ Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance, who provided their own armour and were not paid.
▪ But Miss Close's father was a man of substance, and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
▪ He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
▪ He was a man of substance.
▪ His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance.
▪ I am not worried about the men of substance.
▪ I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
▪ The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance.
marked man/woman
▪ But Chennault was a marked man.
▪ Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
▪ From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
▪ He thus became a marked man.
▪ In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
▪ It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
▪ Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
▪ Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
▪ And a T'ang is not just any man.
people/women/students etc of color
professional person/man/woman etc
▪ A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
▪ About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
▪ As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
▪ Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
▪ Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
▪ The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
▪ There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
▪ These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
sb's old woman
the little woman
▪ A pinstriped husband in the city patronisingly fond of the little woman and her projects.
▪ The report explodes the myth that men are the bed-hopping rogues while the little woman waits at home.
▪ What is incomprehensible is John McEnroe's apparent efforts to keep the little woman at home.
the man/woman in the street
▪ The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
▪ This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
▪ But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
▪ He picked up the women in the street.
▪ Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
▪ One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
▪ That's what the man in the street wants.
▪ The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
▪ Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
the other woman
▪ I couldn't believe it when the other woman turned out to be my next-door neighbor.
▪ Carrie's only problem was the other woman who worked in the dining rooms.
▪ Eva was more lucid than most of the other women, yet she never got out of the locked ward.
▪ Her hair was fair, so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently, Elizabeth Lavenza.
▪ Hilda returned to her seat next to Omite, while the other women seemed to form a circle that excluded her.
▪ Lakshmiamma, a lace-maker in Narsapur, gave a talk to the other women recently.
▪ She cries a little when one of the other women stops to talk.
▪ She resolved to find out about the other woman.
▪ The father never guessed any of the other women in the room.
the thinking man's/woman's etc sth
the woman/man/girl etc in your life
▪ He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
▪ Michael: Who are the men in your life?
▪ My doctor is the man in my life.
▪ Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life.
▪ Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives.
▪ To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives.
▪ Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
▪ Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
the women's movement
token woman/black etc
▪ We shouldn't accept the analysis of the token woman.
▪ You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population.
woman/lady/girl of easy virtue
▪ Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
woman/man etc of independent means
woman/man with a mission
▪ A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
▪ How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
▪ Powered by a man with a mission.
women's libber
▪ She's a women's libber, so it's all on offer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ women's clothes
▪ Women drivers tend to be much more careful than men.
▪ an exciting new collection of short stories by women writers
▪ In some African countries, the women do most of the agricultural work.
▪ Mrs Thatcher was Britain's first woman prime minister.
▪ Not long ago, the Church of England voted to ordain women priests.
▪ Rebecca Stephens was the first British woman to climb Mount Everest.
▪ What can a woman do when she can't trust her best friend?
▪ Who's that woman you were talking to just now?
▪ Who was the dark-haired woman you were talking to?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All participants were new sales and marketing managers, fourteen men and five women.
▪ And women go through a monthly pain cycle.
▪ But this woman was nothing like her.
▪ Could a man who deserted his wife and child for another woman get off free without scars?
▪ Some women work because, having reduced responsibilities and ties, they have more spare time and freedom.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woman

Woman \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.

Woman

Woman \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. 2

  2. 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woman

"adult female human," late Old English wimman, wiman (plural wimmen), literally "woman-man," alteration of wifman (plural wifmen) "woman, female servant" (8c.), a compound of wif "woman" (see wife) + man "human being" (in Old English used in reference to both sexes; see man (n.)). Compare Dutch vrouwmens "wife," literally "woman-man."\n\nIt is notable that it was thought necessary to join wif, a neuter noun, representing a female person, to man, a masc. noun representing either a male or female person, to form a word denoting a female person exclusively.

[Century Dictionary]

\nThe formation is peculiar to English and Dutch. Replaced older Old English wif and quean as the word for "female human being." The pronunciation of the singular altered in Middle English by the rounding influence of -w-; the plural retains the original vowel. Meaning "wife," now largely restricted to U.S. dialectal use, is attested from mid-15c. Woman-hater "misogynist" is from c.1600. Women's work is from 1660s. Women's liberation is attested from 1966; women's rights is from 1840, with an isolated example in 1630s.
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Wiktionary
woman

n. 1 An adult female human. 2 (lb en collective) All females collectively; womankind. 3 A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend). 4 A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (qualifier: Used as the last element of a compound.) 5 A female attendant or servant. vb. 1 To staff with female labor. 2 (context transitive English) To make effeminate or womanish. 3 (context transitive English) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

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WordNet
woman

  1. n. an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" [syn: adult female] [ant: man]

  2. women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation" [syn: womanhood]

  3. a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady]

  4. 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" [ant: man]

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Wikipedia
Woman

A woman is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as " women's rights". "Woman" may also refer to a person's gender identity. Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. In the context of gender identity, transgender people who are biologically determined to be male and identify as women cannot give birth. Some intersex people who identify as women cannot give birth because of either sterility or inheriting one or more Y chromosomes. In extremely rare cases, people who have Swyer syndrome can give birth with medical assistance. Throughout history women have assumed or been assigned various social roles.

Woman (Burt Bacharach album)

Woman is an album by Burt Bacharach in collaboration with the Houston Symphony Orchestra that was released in 1979 on A&M Records. It is a recording of a live, four-hour recording session that took place on November 2, 1978 at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas. The project was originally conceived by Bacharach and Michael Woolcock. Guest vocalists included Carly Simon on the song "I Live In The Woods", Libby Titus on the song "Riverboat" and Sally Stevens on the song "There Is Time".

Woman (John Lennon song)

"Woman" is a song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1980 album Double Fantasy. The track was chosen by Lennon to be the second single released from the Double Fantasy album, and it was the first Lennon single issued after his death on 8 December 1980. The B-side of the single is Ono's song "Beautiful Boys".

Lennon wrote "Woman" as an ode to his wife Yoko Ono, and to all women. The track begins with Lennon whispering, "For the other half of the sky ...", a paraphrase of a Chinese proverb, once used by Mao Zedong.

Woman (disambiguation)

Woman is an adult female human.

Woman also can refer to:

  • Womyn, an alternate spelling for woman
Woman (Nancy Sinatra album)

Woman is a studio album by Nancy Sinatra, released in 1973. It was arranged by Larry Muhoberac.

Woman (Mike McGear album)

Woman is the first solo album by British musician Mike McGear (spelled Michael on the cover), brother of former-Beatle Paul McCartney, who also co-wrote a song, but is credited as a "friend". Roger McGough produced and co-wrote some songs with McGear.

The cover is a black-and-white photo of McGear/McCartney's mother.

Woman (Wolfmother song)

"Woman" is a song by Australian rock band Wolfmother, featured on their 2005 debut studio album Wolfmother. It was released as the band's fourth single in Australia on 17 June 2006, and later in the United Kingdom on 17 July. It became a massive hit at rock radio during the summer of 2006 in the United States, peaking at number 7 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 10 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Woman" won the award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007.

In Australia, the original recording of the song was ranked number 45 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004 after appearing on their debut EP Wolfmother.

Woman (Australian magazine)

Woman or Woman: Incorporating the Woman's Budget was a woman's magazine published in Sydney, Australia by Sungravure. It operated from 1934 to 1954. Issues originally cost three pence each.

Woman (Paul McCartney song)

"Woman" is a 1966 single by Peter and Gordon, written by Paul McCartney under a pseudonym.

Woman (UK magazine)

Woman is an English weekly magazine launched in 1937. Its target audience is for 30- to 40-year-old women. It encompasses a mix of celebrity gossip and TV news, real-life stories, and fashion and beauty tips. Its lifestyle section offers ideas on homes, interiors and food, product reviews and advice.

Odhams Press founded the first colour weekly, Woman in 1937, for which it set up and operated a dedicated high-speed print works. During World War II the magazine provided a range of fashion tips to cope with clothes rationing as well as recipes to deal with the shortages and alternatives. For example, in August 1943 the recipes article focused on uses of "Household milk", which was how they referred to powdered milk.

Woman was published by Time Inc. UK. For the second half of 2013 the circulation of the magazine was 252,239 copies.

Woman (1968 film)

Woman ( 여 - Yeo) is a 1968 three-part South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young, Jung Jin-woo and Yu Hyun-mok. The film was based on ideas of Kim Ki-young's wife, Kim Yu-bong, and Kim directed the last third.

Woman (Sensuous Woman)

"Woman (Sensuous Woman)" is a 1972 single by Don Gibson. "Woman (Sensuous Woman)" was Don Gibson's final number one on the country charts spending one week at the top and a total of sixteen weeks on the charts. Other artists released their versions of "Woman (Sensuous Woman)," including Ray Charles on his 1984 album "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind," and Mark Chesnutt, whose version under the title "Woman, Sensuous Woman" peaked at #21 in the Country Music charts.

Woman (1918 film)

Woman is a 1918 American silent film directed by Maurice Tourneur, an allegorical film showcasing the story of women through points in time. Popular in its day, the film was distributed in the State's Rights plan as opposed to a major distributor like Paramount or Universal. This film has been preserved in private collections and in major venues like the Museum of Modern Art and reportedly the Gosfilmofond Archive in Russia. Some scenes were shot at Bar Harbor, Maine. It was here that one of Tourneur's cameramen, John van den Broek, lost his life while filming a scene close to the raging Atlantic Ocean. His body was swept out to sea and never found.

Prints of this film are held at Cineteca Del Friuli, Germona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Gosfilmofond of Russia, Moscow.

Woman (Rhye album)

Woman is the debut studio album by Canadian/Danish R&B duo Rhye. The album was released worldwide on March 1, 2013 by Polydor Records, except in North America where it was released on March 5 through Loma Vista Recordings, Innovative Leisure, and Republic Records. The album's release followed the singles "Open" and "The Fall", both of which appear on the album.

Woman (Jill Scott album)

Woman is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Jill Scott, which was released on July 24, 2015, by Blues Babe Records and Atlantic Records.

Woman (Jon Stevens album)

Woman is the ninth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter, Jon Stevens. The album was released on 18 September 2015 and peaked at number 86.

The first single "Woman" was available as a free download for two weeks from Stevens' Facebook page.

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Usage examples of "woman".

Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.

As he helped the woman to the stage Abie realized they all knew he would choose one of them as a partner.

That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.

There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.

Suddenly, it was as if a window in heaven had been opened and I saw a group of Aboriginal women standing together.

You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.

Former NATO general Wesley Clark was only slightly more explicit than all the other Democratic candidates for president, saying a woman should be free to abort her baby right up until the moment of birth.

I knew he usually aborted only married women, in their late twenties and thirties.

The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.

It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.

Privately I ascribed her immunity to the fact that, being a woman, she escaped most of the cuts and abrasions to which we hard-working men were subject in the course of working the Snark around the world.

The abrasive warrior woman was about as warm and cuddly as a porcupine, and just as touchy.

I have received a few unconfirmed rumors from the north, but then, you and I both know that warfare is always abrim with rumors, warriors being as gossipy as old women.

From their bases first at Turin, and then at Coblenz, they were accused of planning invasions of France on the heels of absolutist armies that would put good patriots and their women and children to the sword and raze their cities.

But according to John 8 Christ absolved the adulterous woman without Penance.