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seaman/woman
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sailor |
| Synonyms: | bluejacket, boater, boatman/woman, deck hand, mariner, mate, middy, midshipman/woman, old salt, pirate, sailorman/woman, sea dog, seafarer, swabbie, yachtsman/woman |
| Concept: | Woman. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-nouns
woman, she, her, female, petticoat., feminality, muliebrity; womanhood (adolescence)., womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex., dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs., lady, donna, belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife (marriage); matronage, matronhood., bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist., nymph, wench, grisette; girl (youth)., [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean, henhussy, molly coddle, muff, old woman., [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen., gynecaeum.
-adjectives
female, she; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic.
-phrases
"a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; "a lovely lady garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan [Goethe]; "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es de vidrio la mujer; "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope]; "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et mutabile semper femina
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| Antonyms: | man |
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| Main Entry: | fair sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female sex |
| Synonyms: | gentle sex, women, womenfolk |
| Main Entry: | gentle sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female sex |
| Synonyms: | fair sex, softer sex, womankind, women |
| Main Entry: | adult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mature, fully grown person |
| Synonyms: | gentleperson, grownup, man, person, woman |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, infant |
| Main Entry: | creature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being, beast |
| Synonyms: | animal, body, brute, creation, critter, fellow, individual, living being, living thing, lower animal, man, mortal, party, person, personage, quadruped, soul, varmint, woman |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | damsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maiden |
| Synonyms: | colleen, lady, lass, lassie, miss, virgin, woman, young girl, young woman |
| Main Entry: | daughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female child |
| Synonyms: | female offspring, girl, offspring, woman |
| Main Entry: | earthling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | earth dweller, humankind, man, person, tellurian, woman |
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