What is "woman hater"

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.

n. a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: misogynist]

Woman Hater is a 1948 British romantic comedy film directed by Terence Young and starring Stewart Granger, Edwige Feuillère and Ronald Squire. Lord Datchett invites a French film star to stay as his house but pretends to be one of his employees while he tries to romance her with the help of his butler. When she discovers his subterfuge she decides to turn the tables on him.

A woman hater is a believer in misogyny (hatred or dislike of women or girls).

Woman Hater or Woman Haters may also refer to:

• The Woman Hater, a Jacobean era stage play by Francis Beamont and John Fletcher
• The Woman Hater (film), a 1910 film starring Pearl White by the Powers Company
• The Woman Hater (1910 Thanhouser film), a 1910 film featuring Violet Heming by the Thanhouser Company
• The Woman Haters, a 1913 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle
• Woman Haters, a 1934 short film starring the Three Stooges
• Woman Hater (1948 film), a British romantic comedy
• The Woman Hater, a satiric comedy play by Frances Burney
• Sone ha-Nashim (The Woman-Hater), a humorous satire written by Judah ibn Shabbethai