Woman meaning : An adult female human. (collective) All females collectively; womankind. A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend). A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.) A female attendant or servant. To staff with female labor. To make effeminate or womanish. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.