Old Woman

Definition: Old Woman

Old Woman

Noun

1. A woman who is old.

2. Herb with grayish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Old Woman

Fool

Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy.

Impotence

Cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.

Marriage

Bridesmaid, bridesman, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.

Woman

Sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

Crosswords: Old Woman

She's an old woman. (Mrs. Doubtfire; writing credit: Randi Mayem Singer)

Repulsed by her haggard appearance the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

So what would tell a twenty-eight year old woman who's still living in her parents house because she's afraid of living alone (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I can handle a sick old woman! (Psycho; writing credit: Joseph Stefano)

Now you're bivouacking with an old woman and a zoom lens (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen (Hit the Road Jack; performing artist: Ray Charles)

Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman (1992)

Discussions in Bioethics: The Old Woman (1988)

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

Books

• The Old Woman and Her Pig (reference)

• The Old Woman Who Named Things (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shown is a side-by-side of two normal mammograms showing the difference between a dense breast (left) and a fatty breast (right). The dense breast is that of a woman aged 39, the fatty breast is that of a 59-year old woman. Abnormal lesions are easier to detect and diagnose in a fatty breast making mammography more accurate. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

An old woman going out to the field to plant corn, on a large farm. Moncks Corner (vicinity), SC. March 1941. Credit: USDA.

Old woman in apron and shawl. Credit: Library of Congress.

When Anne Mary reached the house, she found the old woman making a cup of tea. Credit: Library of Congress.

Police officer issuing a ticket for jaywalking to an old woman helped across the street by a boy scout against the "Dont Walk" signal] / Peter Arno. Credit: Library of Congress.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Acoma Pueblo old woman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Woman Road House. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So saying, she showed the old woman two Napoleons that glistened on the table

Before the fire an old woman was busy making tea and, as she bustled at her task, she told in a low voice of what the priest and the doctor had said

She walked to the mattress and looked down at the old woman for a moment

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Human Rights

Azerbaijan

In November 2000, in the days following a violent demonstration in Sheki, police detained and reportedly tortured a 61-year old woman, Gulhar Pashayeva, in order to extract a confession that she had participated in the demonstration and to obtain the name of other participants. (references)

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

Expressions using "old woman": my old woman ♦ spectacled old woman ♦ the old woman. Additional references.

Albanian

plakë (Babushka, Gammer, Goody, grannie, granny), grua e moshuar (Dame). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مديرة (directress, manageress, matron), ‏إمراة برجوازية, ‏إمرأة عجوزة (gammer, harpy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

старица (beldam, hag), баба (grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, mother, wise woman, woman). (various references)

Chinese 

老太婆 (term to refer to wife), 媼 , 姥 (governess, grandma), 嫗 (brood over, protect). (various references)

Czech

stará (old girl), stařena. (various references)

Dutch

oudje (gammer), oude vrouw (gammer), besje (gammer). (various references)

Esperanto

maljunulino (gammer). (various references)

Finnish

mummo (grandmother, granny), muija, eukko, akka, ämmä. (various references)

French

vieille. (various references)

German

weib (broad, female, piece, shrew, vixen, wife, woman, Xanthippe), alte (anciently, gaffer, man, missis, old man, oldies). (various references)

Greek 

γριά (belch, old, old lady, oldster). (various references)

Hebrew 

זק� �" (eldely lady, grandmother). (various references)

Hungarian

feleség (better half, marrow, missus, rib, wife, wives), öregasszony. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老婆 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばばあ (hag), ばば (hag, riding ground), ろうさい (workers' compensation insurance), ろうふ (old father), ろうば. (various references)

Manx

shenn ven (ancestress, crone). (various references)

Papiamen

biehita (gammer). (various references)

Pig Latin

olday omanway.(various references)

Portuguese

velha (gammer, old), mãe (mother, mum, old lady, venter). (various references)

Romanian

babetã (crone), babã (crone, squaw, wife), båtrinå (gammer), bãtrânã. (various references)

Russian 

старуха (crone, gammer, trot), женщина (a bit of muslin, a bit of skirt, expectant mother, female, grey mare, hen, petticoat, skirt, woman, womankind, women, womenfolk). (various references)

Scottish

cailleach (gammer, old wife). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starica (anile, beldam, beldame, gammer), stara žena, baba (gammer, grandmother). (various references)

Spanish

vieja (hag, harridan, old lady, old man, oldster), anciana (grandmother, harridan). (various references)

Swedish

käring (woman), gumma. (various references)

Turkish

kocakarı (Beldam, beldame, crone, frump, gammer, hag, harridan), karı (bedfellow, broad, Dame, dutch, Jane, old lady, spouse, the old woman, wife, woman), ihtiyar (aged, elderly, geriatric, grey haired, old, old man, oldie, oldish, oldster, pater), eş (better half, coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old lady, old man, one of a pair, pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spousal, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife), anne (Ma, mam, mama, mamma, mammy, mater, maternal, maw, mom, mother, mum, mummy, old lady), acuze (Beldam, beldame, grimalkin, hag, tabby). (various references)

Turkmen 

kempir. (various references)

Yucatec

xnuk (gammer). (various references)

Zulu

isalukazi (gammer). (various references)

umu. (various references)

absaniae, anania, ananiae, ananiaeque, ananiam, ananias, aneni, anes, anus, cinis. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: woodman, woolman.

-2 letters: almond, dolman, wadmol.

-3 letters: adown, dolma, domal, modal, monad, mondo, moola, nodal, nomad, waldo, woald, woman.

-4 letters: alow, awol, damn, dawn, dona, doom, down, land, lawn, load, loam, loan, loom, loon, lown, mano, mawn, moan, mola, mold, mono, mood, mool, moon, mown, nolo, noma, wand, woad, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: ado, and.