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View definitions for single woman

single woman

noun as in bachelor girl

noun as in spinster

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If you're a single woman over 20, do yourself a favor and stop reading now.

When sex workers are afraid of the police, it makes the world a more dangerous place for every single woman.

I think every single woman in the world would be jealous in that kind of situation.

They also failed to include a single woman among the 40 secretariat seats.

Despite what her detractors said, she stressed that physical upkeep was an important lifestyle choice for a single woman.

No single woman, having been seduced, has any remedy at common law; neither has her mother nor next friend.

A man and wife are one person in law: a wife loses all her rights as a single woman.

A single woman has the same rights of property as a man; that is, she may get and keep, or dispose of, whatever she can.

Seems to me if I was a young—that is, a single woman like her, I'd be kind of careful about callin' on bachelors.

I am a single woman; not from want of opportunities of changing my condition—I beg you will understand that—but from choice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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