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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class III. Words Relating to Matter |
| Section III. Organic Matter |
| 1. Vitality |
| 2. Special Vitality |
| 374. Woman. |
| NOUN: | WOMAN, she, female, petticoat; skirt, jane [both slang]. FEMINALITY, femininity, femineity, feminacy, feminity, muliebrity; gynics. WOMANKIND; womanhood (adolescence) [See Adolescence]; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel. dame [archaic except as an elderly woman], madam, mastress [Chaucer, obs.], lady, Donna, belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer [dial. Eng.], memsahib [Anglo-Ind.], sahiba [Hind.], bibi [Hind.], frow, Vrouw [Du.], good woman, goodwife [archaic]; squaw; wife (marriage) [See Marriage]; matronage, matronhood. bachelor girl, new woman, suffragist, suffragette; spinster, old maid. nymph, houri, wench, grisette; girl (youth) [See Infant]. MISTRESS, Mrs., madame (pl. mesdames) [F.], Frau [Ger.], signora [It], señora [Sp.], senhora [Pg.]; miss, mademoiselle (pl. mesdemoiselles) [F.], Fräulein [Ger.], signorina [It.], señorita [Sp.], senhorita [Pg.]. [EFFEMINACY] betty, cot betty [U. S.], cotquean, henhussy, molly, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, tame cat [all contemptuous]. [FEMALE ANIMAL] hen; bitch, slut, brach, brachet; sow, doe, roe, mare; shegoat, nanny-goat [colloq.], nanny [colloq.]; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen. HAREM, gynæceum or gynæcium, seraglio, zenana [India], purdah [India]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | FEMALE, she; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, girlish, maidenly; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic or gynæcic. |
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