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OLD WOMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman who is old
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old woman" is a kind of...):
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old woman"):
beldam; beldame (a woman of advanced age)
granny (an old woman)
beldam; beldame; crone; hag; witch (an ugly evil-looking old woman)
mother (a term of address for an elderly woman)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
Synonyms:
Artemisia stelleriana; beach wormwood; dusty miller; old woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old woman" is a kind of...):
wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)
Holonyms ("old woman" is a member of...):
genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)
Context examples:
I might ha’ done it, perhaps, but the old woman was against it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meanwhile, the funeral may proceed, and the poor old woman who still lies in that coffin may go to her last resting-place alone.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Now look here, old woman," Higginbotham bullied, "for the thousandth time I've told you to keep your nose out of the business. I won't tell you again."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“She must be a pretty old woman now,” he said, staring meditatively into the binnacle and then jerking a sharp glance at Harrison, who was steering a point off the course.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cottage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards Highbury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As he threw the door open an old woman ran out in front of him and tried to bar his passage, but he thrust her back, and an instant afterwards we were all upon the stairs.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All these jealousies and discontents, however, were so totally unsuspected by Mrs. Jennings, that she thought it a delightful thing for the girls to be together; and generally congratulated her young friends every night, on having escaped the company of a stupid old woman so long.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: “Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? do come in, and stay with me. No harm shall happen to you.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“And how are you, old woman?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
