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WOMAN

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woman I. plural women substantiv

1. femeie;

woman of the world femeie / doamnă de lume;

kept woman femeie întreţinută;

to make an honest woman of smb. a) a se însura cu o femeie cu trecut; b) a legaliza prin căsătorie o legătură cu o femeie;

(fam.) my good woman draga mea;

(fig., despre un bărbat) old woman muiere, babă;

(glumeţ) the old woman is picking her geese ninge;

one's young woman iubită, drăguţă;

there's a woman in it e o femeie la mijloc;

wise woman vrăjitoare; ghicitoare;

woman of letters scriitoare;

woman of pleasure femeie stricată, prostituată.

2. servitoare, femeie (în casă), slujnică;

woman of all works fată în casă / la toate.

3. iubită; ibovnică; metresă.

4. soţie, soaţă, nevastă.

woman II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a-i spune „femeie" (cuiva).

2. a numi femei în (o întreprindere).

3. (înv.) a însura.

woman II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se purta ca o femeie.

woman III. adjectiv

de femeie, femeiesc.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Should not this be enough for a sailor, who has had no society among women to make him nice?

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Can any man be to me as Clerval was, or any woman another Elizabeth?

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Well," I asked impatiently, "is not Mrs. Reed a hard-hearted, bad woman?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It is amazingly; it may well suggest amazement if they do—for they read nearly as many as women.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

The man, who has some work which he must do, desires to leave the woman in absolute safety while he does it.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What a difference in the weight of a woman's arm from that of a man!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“Weeping like a woman or a lost soul,” said the butler.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had never known women who had made him better.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I now caught my first fair glimpse of the woman.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

A woman ought to tell her husband everything—don't you think so, dear? —and I must be fair.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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