Woman vs. Superwoman — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Woman and Superwoman
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Definitions
Woman
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent).
Superwoman
Superwoman is the name of several fictional characters from DC Comics. Most of them are, like Supergirl, women with powers similar to those of Superman.
Woman
An adult female human.
Superwoman
A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.
Woman
Women considered as a group; womankind
“Woman feels the invidious distinctions of sex exactly as the black man does those of color” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
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Superwoman
A woman with more than human powers.
Woman
An adult female human belonging to a specified occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination
An Englishwoman.
Congresswoman.
A saleswoman.
Superwoman
(informal) A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job.
Woman
A female servant or subordinate.
Superwoman
A woman with superhuman powers.
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Woman
A wife.
Woman
A female lover or sweetheart. See Usage Notes at chairman, female, lady, man.
Woman
An adult female human.
Woman
(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.
Woman
A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
Woman
A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
Woman
A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. Used as the last element of a compound.
Woman
A female attendant or servant.
Woman
To staff with female labor.
Woman
(transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
Woman
(transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Woman
(transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
Woman
Of or relating to a woman/women; female.
Woman
An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Woman
The female part of the human race; womankind.
Man is destined to be a prey to woman.
Woman
A female attendant or servant.
Woman
To act the part of a woman in; - with indefinite it.
Woman
To make effeminate or womanish.
Woman
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Woman
An adult female person (as opposed to a man);
The woman kept house while the man hunted
Woman
Women as a class;
It's an insult to American womanhood
Woman is the glory of creation
Woman
A human female who does housework;
The char will clean the carpet
Woman
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
