English Dictionary
◊ WOODHEWER
woman
n 1: an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman
kept house while the man hunted" [syn: {adult female}]
[ant: {man}]
2: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
"woman is the glory of creation" [syn: {womanhood}]
3: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the
carpet" [syn: {charwoman}, {char}, {cleaning woman}, {cleaning
lady}]
4: (informal) a female person who plays a significant role
(wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a
particular man; "he was faithful to his woman" [ant: {man}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ WOMAN
woman
A replacement for the {Unix} {man} {documentation}
browsing command. Version 1.157 of woman runs under/on
{386BSD}, {OSF}, {Apollo} {Domain/OS}, {BSD}, {HP-UX}, {IBM}
{RS-6000}, {Irix}, {Linux}, {Solaris}, {Sony} {NEWS}, {SunOS},
{Ultrix}, {Unicos}.
Posted to comp.sources.reviewed Volume 3, Issue 50 on 05 Jul
1993 by Arne Henrik Juul , archive-name
woman-1.157.
{FTP USC, USA
(ftp://usc.edu/archive/usenet/sources/comp.sources.reviewed/volume3/wom