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ENGLISHWOMAN

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Overview

ENGLISHWOMAN (noun)
  The noun ENGLISHWOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Englandplay

  Familiarity information: ENGLISHWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ENGLISHWOMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is a native or inhabitant of England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Englishwoman" is a kind of...):

English person (a native or inhabitant of England)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Englishwoman"):

Cornishwoman (a woman who is a native or resident of Cornwall)

Holonyms ("Englishwoman" is a member of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)


 Context examples 


Their governess is a Miss Burnet, an Englishwoman of forty or thereabouts.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is no sick Englishwoman in the hotel?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His particular specialty is the beguiling of lonely ladies by playing upon their religious feelings, and his so-called wife, an Englishwoman named Fraser, is a worthy helpmate.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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