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# woman

«woman» in Mova's school dictionary: **a grown-up female person, an adult girl** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (woman, women)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A woman is a grown-up female person, an adult girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#m1)

2) Women is the word for more than one woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a person in a story; women counted in groups; men and women together are added. In history and everyday life: famous women in science and sport, the women's team, women getting the right to vote. Phrases: «a young woman», «an old woman», «women and men», «businesswoman», «policewoman».

### examples

- There are 15 women and 12 men at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x1)
- Each woman brought 2 dishes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x2)
- How many people are there in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x3)
- A woman bought 3 dresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x4)
- The woman at the desk gave us our tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x5)
- Marie Curie was a woman scientist who won two Nobel Prizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x6)
- The women's football team won the cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x7)
- An old woman fed the ducks by the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x8)
- "You have killed the holy woman!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/#x9)

### note

Plural «women» (say «WIM-in»), not «womans». Polite: «lady»; plain and respectful: «woman». Maths: people counted; men and women together are added.

### In the corpora

- [When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/0/)
- [A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/16/)
- [A widow is a woman whose husband has died, and a widower is a man whose wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/18/)
- [A woman who is never seen outside may use a wheelchair on a path with steps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/5/)
- [The longest hair recorded was over five metres, grown by a woman in China.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.