Thesaurus results for WOMEN

women

noun

plural of woman

as in ladies

an adult female human being the first woman to become governor of the state

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a female romantic companion wanted to give his woman all the finer things in life

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as in wives

chiefly dialect a female partner in a marriage treated his woman to dinner at a five-star restaurant for their fifteenth wedding anniversary

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Recent Examples of women The archaic legal restrictions restricting same-sex couples or unmarried women, for example, are acknowledged and adhered to, rather than being openly challenged or criticized. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 At Lumalia Emmy Armstrong’s Holy Rage Retreats in the Oregon woods near Portland, small groups of women gather among the trees, expressing themselves through sound and movement. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026 No rude reality intrudes on Avedon’s dream city, where the women are beautiful and in love and even the bystanders are charmed. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 Amnesty International reports that North Korea forced local residents, students and workers to watch the 2008 execution of 13 women and two men as a deterrent. — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 More than 50 others were kidnapped, including women and children. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026 An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defence service officials said. — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026 Earlier in September, two elderly women who had separately gone missing while out picking mushrooms were found dead, with injuries consistent with a bear attack. — Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026 Investigators did not link the shots Payton fired while fleeing north on 10th Street to the deaths of the three women. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for women

Noun

The next day, Gina is excited to bring the ladies to a Japanese temple, based on how transformative her prior experience at a temple in Bali was.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
The young ladies in the show are calling each other out and keeping each other accountable.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of ladies

Noun

Men shouted abuse from car windows or tried to bribe him with money, drugs, even girlfriends.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
The show follows the wives, girlfriends and partners of prisoners, with Glen playing a career criminal whose lavish lifestyle is running out, along with his money.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of girlfriends

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The males die after a hookup; the females return to Lake Erie to lay their eggs.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
As the number of distractor calls increased, females got worse at picking the attractive call, took longer to decide, and were more likely to defer choosing within the 10-minute window altogether.

— Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of females

Noun

When the all-girls boarding school for young witches first appeared on the show, the historic Buckner Mansion in New Orleans was used for exterior shots, underscoring Coven’s spooky Southern Gothic aesthetic.

— Mekita Rivas, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026
The ordering should be pleasant like the voices of the elevator girls in department stores.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026