Antonyms of noun woman

2 of 4 senses of woman

Sense 1
woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")
       Antonym of man (Sense 1)
      => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")

Sense 2
woman -- (a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman")
       Antonym of man (Sense 8)
      => man -- (a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun woman

4 senses of woman

Sense 1
woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")
       => female, female person -- (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)
       => adult, grownup -- (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Sense 2
woman -- (a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman")
       => female, female person -- (a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies)

Sense 3
charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman -- (a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write")
       => cleaner -- (someone whose occupation is cleaning)

Sense 4
womanhood, woman, fair sex -- (women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda")
       => class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")

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