YOUNG WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young woman mean? 

• YOUNG WOMAN (noun)
  The noun YOUNG WOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a young female

  Familiarity information: YOUNG WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young female

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman

Context example:

a young lady of 18

Hypernyms ("young woman" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

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

May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)

working girl (a young woman who is employed)

valley girl (a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley)

hoyden; romp; tomboy (a girl who behaves in a boyish manner)

sweater girl (a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters)

soubrette (a pert or flirtatious young girl)

shop girl (a young female shop assistant)

sex bomb; sex kitten; sexpot (a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal)

rosebud ((a literary reference to) a pretty young girl)

ring girl (a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights)

peri (a beautiful and graceful girl)

party girl (an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men)

mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)

belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)

maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))

jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl (a girl or young woman who is unmarried)

Gibson girl (the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson)

gamine (a girl of impish appeal)

gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))

flapper (a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress)

bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench (informal terms for a (young) woman)

colleen (an Irish girl)

chit (a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect)

chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke ((Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman)

bimbo (a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men)

 Context examples 

She does seem a charming young woman, just what he deserves.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The young woman came to the door last evening—mistook the house, she did.

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

"Negore," said the young woman, scarcely looking up from her task.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She has done no more than what every young woman would do; and I have no doubt of her being extremely happy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Don't you feel how splendid it is that a young man and a young woman should be able to talk face to face as we have talked?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It's a young woman, sir—a young woman, that Em'ly knowed once, and doen't ought to know no more.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Young woman, rise, and pass before me into the house.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The young woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth departed after the first meal.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is very right that you SHOULD go to town; I would have every young woman of your condition in life acquainted with the manners and amusements of London.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)