WOMAN'S

Date "WOMAN'S" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Crosswords: WOMAN'S

Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.)

But when he dismissed her again the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion (A Streetcar Named Desire; writing credit: Tennessee Williams; Oscar Saul)

A woman's shoulders are the front lines of her mystique, and her neck, if she's alive, has all the mystery of a border town (The Devil's Advocate; writing credit: Tony Gilroy and Jonathan Lemkin. Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman.)

What a wonderful thing a woman's hat is Somehow it seems to symbolize the marvelous complexity of her own personality (Miss Jerry; writing credit: Alexander Black)

This woman's world (This Woman's Work; performing artist: Maxwell)

The woman's got soul (All About Soul; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Baby hair with a woman's eyes (Sara Smile; performing artist: HALL & OATES)

You can see it in a woman's eyes (God Gave My Everything; performing artist: Mick Jagger)

Maybe this woman's just all I need (INFATUATION; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66 (references; author: unknown)

A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability. (references; author: unknown)

What passes as a woman's intuition is usually nothing more than a man's transparency. (references; author: unknown)

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (references; author: unknown)

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance. (references; author: unknown)

Whicker Within a Woman's World (1972)

The Woman's Film (1971)

A Woman's Privilege (1962)

Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961)

Woman's Temptation (1959)

This Woman's Work (performing artist: Maxwell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Cruising Woman's Advisor: How to Prepare for the Voyaging Life (reference)

• Family Secrets: One Woman's Affectionate Look at a Relatively Painful Subject (reference)

• An Affair of the Mind: One Woman's Courageous Battle to Salvage Her Family from the Devastation of Pornography (reference)

• Pathways to Pleasure : A Woman's Guide to Orgasm (reference)

• Daisy Bates in the Desert/a Woman's Life Among the Aborigines: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Woman's Day (reference)

• Woman's Own (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Every Woman's and Man's Guide to Affordable Cosmetic Surgery (reference)

• A Woman's Guide To Adultery (reference)

• Well Sexy Women: A Lesbian Woman's Guide to Safer Sex (reference)

• A Woman's Devotion (reference)

• A Woman's Guide To Firearms (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Faire Celts: A Woman's Voice (reference)

• A Woman's Voice: First Person Singular (reference)

• The Woman's Boat (reference)

• A Woman's Voice Empowerment Workshop (reference)

• When a Woman's Fed Up [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• REMINGTON WDF1100 Smooth & Silky Woman's Shaver (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a line drawing of a woman's pelvic area showing the fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, cervix, and vagina. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Line drawing of a woman's pelvic area showing the aorta, fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterus, cervix, and vagina. The lymph nodes are highlighted. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Medical students following up a case in the woman's ward ... WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Boucas..

Woman's holy war. Grand charge on the enemy's works. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman's tact. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman's head. Credit: Library of Congress.

A woman's success story. Credit: Library of Congress.

What every husband knows. A woman's fear of a mouse is a classic jest -- but if there's a noisy ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman's crusade against intemperance / drawn by C.S. Reinhart. Credit: Library of Congress.

View to the west from the roof of the Liberal Arts Building, showing the Wooded Island, Music Hall, Ferris Wheel, the Horticultural and Woman's Buildings, and the dome of the California Building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The young woman's memory was correct. (references)

A man's voice is easier to hear than the higher pitches of a woman's voice. (references)

However, a pregnant woman's IGF-1 levels are two to three times higher than normal. (references)

Children

Korea

Although the law bans fetal testing except when a woman's life is in danger, when a hereditary disease would be transmitted, or in cases of rape or incest, such testing and the subsequent termination of pregnancies with female fetuses frequently occur. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

In court a woman's testimony is worth the same as a man's. (references)

Panama

Chery had reported a woman's allegations that police robbed her of $33,000 during a search of her apartment. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Within the past year, several international quality publications have begun circulation, including "Nha Dep" (Beautiful Home), "Dinh Cao" (Sports & Fitness), "M" (Fashion) and "Phu Nu The Gioi" (Woman's World). (references)

Human Rights

Sierra Leone

RUF members tied up and beat the woman's stepson, who was accused of stealing diamonds. (references)

Mexico

The 1984 General Health Law provides for criminal action against those who pressure a woman to undergo sterilization procedures or perform such procedures without a woman's consent. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

Ignorance of the law and societal pressure, including the centrality of marriage to a woman's identity, often affect her decision. (references)

Travel

Poland

American men are not expected to kiss a Polish woman's hand, but may simply shake hands. (references)

Women

Mauritania

By local tradition, a woman's first marriage, but not subsequent marriages, requires parental consent. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

Some trafficking women who exhibit signs of physical abuse may be sent to a woman's shelter instead of being kept by the police; however, permission from the police to allow victims to reside in a shelter is sometimes difficult to obtain. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "WOMAN'S": old woman's ♦ old woman's cure ♦ violate woman's honour ♦ woman's body ♦ Woman's Christian Temperance Union ♦ woman's doctor ♦ woman's hat ♦ woman's reason. Additional references.

Beginning with "WOMAN'S": woman's-magazine.

Containing "WOMAN'S": pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head.

Danish

kvindens ret til selvbestemmelse (woman's self-determination). (various references)

Dutch

vrouwenvorming (woman's education), autonome beslissing van de vrouw (woman's self-determination). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

pachallina (woman's shawl), chunpi (woman's woven belt). (various references)

Esperanto

robo (dress, dress woman's clothing, gown, robe). (various references)

Finnish

naisvoimistelu (woman's gymnastics), naiskuoro (woman's choir), naisenpuku (woman's dress), naisennimi (woman's name), naisen ratkaisuvalta (woman's self-determination), kulkea talutusnuorassa (be tied to a woman's apron-strings). (various references)

French

autonomie du choix (woman's self-determination), autonomie de décision de la femme (woman's self-determination), autonomie décisionnelle de la femme (woman's self-determination), éducation des femmes (woman's education). (various references)

German

Entscheidungsfreiheit der Frau (woman's self-determination). (various references)

Greek 

γυναικείοσ (female, feminine, womanlike, womanly). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלל כבוד אשה (deflower, violate woman's honour). (various references)

Hungarian

női (female, knockers, milliner, womanly, women's). (various references)

Italian

femminile (female, feminine, womanish, womanly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

婦徳 (woman's virtues), 信女 (title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire), ココ椰子 (bodice of a woman's dress, coconut palm, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), コルク抜き (bodice of a woman's dress, colchicine, Colt, corkscrew, cornet, correspondent, corsage, corset, cortisone, kolkhoz, Kolmogorov, small bouquet worn by a woman), 口説き落とす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over), 女心 (female instincts or psychology, woman's heart), 女体 (woman's body), 女気 (woman's presence), 丸髷 (married woman's hairdo), 女色 (love affair, lust, woman's beauty), 花代 (fee for a woman's companionship, price of flowers), 婦道 (woman's duties), 昼夜帯 , 練馬大根 (variety of daikon, woman's fat legs), 留め袖 (tomesode, woman's ceremonial kimono), 美貌の虜になる (to be enslaved by a woman's beauty), 繊指 (woman's slender fingers), 間夫 (a married woman's paramour, lover), 色盛り (woman's most sexually attractive age), 女文字 (hiragana, woman's handwriting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふどう (difference, disorder, diversity, firmness, fixed, floating, idle, immobility, irregularity, motionless, steadfastness, woman's duties), とめそで (tomesode, woman's ceremonial kimono), はなだい (fee for a woman's companionship, price of flowers), じょしょく (love affair, lust, woman's beauty), じょたい (military discharge, woman's body), むんむん (stuffy, woman's desire), コサージュ (bodice of a woman's dress, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), コルサージュ (bodice of a woman's dress, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), いろざかり (woman's most sexually attractive age), せんし (combatant, death in action, former teacher, military history or annals, prehistory, pruning, puncture, soldier, stab, warrior, woman's slender fingers), ちゅうやおび, ふとく (depravity, immorality, lack of virtue, unworthiness, vice, woman's virtues), おんなっけ (woman's presence), まるまげ (married woman's hairdo), まぶ (a married woman's paramour, lover), びぼうのとりこになる (to be enslaved by a woman's beauty), しんにょ (absolute reality, the absolute, title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name), ねりまだいこん (variety of daikon, woman's fat legs), くどきおとす (to persuade, to prevail upon, to talk someone into doing, to win a woman's heart, to win over), おんなけ (woman's presence), おんなもじ (hiragana, woman's handwriting), おんなごころ (female instincts or psychology, woman's heart), にょたい (woman's body). (various references)

Manx

quoif (coif, woman's cap), jeelt ven (side-saddle, woman's saddle), bonnad (brimless cap, woman's bonnet). (various references)

Pig Latin

oman'sway.(various references)

Romanian

muieresc (womanly). (various references)

Russian 

женский (female, feminine, petticoat, wifely, womanish). (various references)

Scottish

tonnag (a wonam's shawl or plaid, woman's shoulder shawl), currac (cap, cowl, woman's head dress), cnòcaid (a young woman's hair bound up in a fillet. Founded on the Scottish cockernonny), cìoch (a woman's breast, woman's breast). (various references)

Spanish

libre decisión de la mujer embarazada (woman's self-determination), libertad decisoria de la mujer (woman's self-determination), educación para la mujer (woman's education). (various references)

Turkish

kadın mantığı (woman's reason), kadın aklı (woman's reason). (various references)

Turkmen 

kofta (r) (woman's jacket). (various references)

feminea, femineae, feminei, femineo, muliebrem, muliebri. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"WOMAN'S" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: womanist, womans. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: womans.

-2 letters: manos, mason, moans, monas, nomas, woman.

-3 letters: awns, mano, mans, mawn, maws, moan, moas, mons, mown, mows, naos, noma, noms, nows, owns, sawn, snaw, snow, soma, sown, swam, swan, wans, wons.

-4 letters: awn, man, mas, maw, moa, mon, mos, mow, nam, naw, nom, nos, now, oms, ons, own, saw, som, son, sow.