Man
Man noun - An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).
Usage example: there were two women and six men on the bus
Woman
Woman noun - An adult female person (as opposed to a man).
Usage example: the woman kept house while the man hunted
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Synonyms for Woman
How words are described
| human | human man | human woman |
| old | old man | old woman |
| rich | rich man | rich woman |
| nice | nice man | nice woman |
| Other adjectives: normal, single, real, grown, big, little, black, innocent, young, attractive, beautiful, naked, mysterious, tall, blind, strange, last, older, elderly, middle-aged, homeless, right-hand. | ||
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Intersex people usually identify as either a man or woman (although some are non-binary), and being intersex does not automatically make you a "man and a woman." Fictional depictions of intersex people often run into Unfortunate Implications and Critical Research Failure.
Source: Hermaphrodite -
One of the Star Trek: New Frontier books does a variation on the old "No man can defeat you" one: "No man or woman" can defeat the Big Bad, but one member of the Excalibur crew is a hermaphrodite.
Source: No Man of Woman Born -
The Hero Of Romance is an expy and Spear Counterpart of Dulcinea, a character from Don Quixote: A Shadow Archetype who embodies all that is lovable (and none of the defects) of a woman or a man, and that only lives in the mind of his lover.
Source: Theatre / Cyrano de Bergerac
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