English-French translations for woman

femme
Que les droits de la femme méritent quelque attention." The Rights of Woman merit some attention.' Cette femme pleurait à gros sanglots. That woman was sobbing her heart out. À la naissance, personne ne choisit d'être une femme. One does not choose to be born a woman.
dame
Madame la Commissaire Kroes, vous avez la réputation d'être une dame de fer. Commissioner Kroes, you have a reputation as a woman of steel. Mesdames et Messieurs, la pauvreté a pour visage celui d’une femme, entend-on souvent dire. Ladies and gentlemen, poverty is generally said to have a woman’s face. Je suis moi-même une dame en exil, car, comme vous le savez, les vraies Dames en blanc ne sont pas avec nous aujourd’hui, malheureusement. I myself am a woman of exile, because, as you are well aware, the real Women in White are not with us today, unfortunately.

An adult female human
All females collectively; womankind
A female person, usually an adult; a 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.
!--obsolete? pejorative?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 "woman" in a disrespectful fashion

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