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actress |
a woman or girl who performs in a play, a movie, or a radio or television program. |
adulteress |
a woman who commits adultery. |
Althea Gibson |
U.S. professional tennis player, who was the first African-American woman to win all the major world singles tennis titles (b.1927--d.2003). |
Amazon |
(often l.c.) a woman resembling this mythical race in stature, strength, or character. [1/3 definitions] |
American dream |
the American ideal that any man or woman may obtain material wealth, equality, freedom, and the like. |
antiwoman |
combined form of woman. |
archduchess |
a woman having a rank equivalent to that of an archduke. [1/2 definitions] |
au pair |
(French) a girl or woman who works for a family, usu. in a foreign country, in exchange for room and board. [1/2 definitions] |
aviatrix |
a woman who flies an aircraft; pilot. |
babe |
(slang; often considered offensive) a young woman, esp. an attractive one. [1/4 definitions] |
baby |
(informal) a person, esp. a woman, who is the object of one's affection. [1/12 definitions] |
baby doll |
(old-fashioned) used as an affectionate or flirtatious term for a woman, esp. one's girlfriend or wife. [1/4 definitions] |
bag |
(offensive) a woman of unpleasant appearance. [1/11 definitions] |
ballerina |
a woman who is a principal dancer in a ballet troupe. [1/2 definitions] |
ball girl |
a girl or young woman who retrieves stray balls during a tennis or baseball game, or who has charge of balls used in practice, as in field hockey or volleyball. |
bandswoman |
a woman or girl who plays in a musical band. |
barmaid |
a woman who mixes or serves drinks in an establishment selling alcoholic beverages; bartender. |
bawd |
a woman in charge of a brothel or whorehouse; madam. [1/2 definitions] |
beau |
a suitor or sweetheart to a girl or woman. [1/2 definitions] |
beauty |
a person or thing with such a quality, esp. a woman. [1/4 definitions] |
beauty spot |
a tiny dark mark or patch applied to the face or shoulders, esp. by a woman to accentuate the fairness of her skin. [1/2 definitions] |
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