OLD WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old woman mean? 

• OLD WOMAN (noun)
  The noun OLD WOMAN has 2 senses:

1. a woman who is old

2. herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant

  Familiarity information: OLD WOMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who is old

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Artemisia stelleriana; beach wormwood; dusty miller; old woman

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 

The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Ah, she's poorly,” said the first old woman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She wasn't there, but Minnie, who is a little old woman, introduced me very prettily.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Your house did, anyway," replied the little old woman, with a laugh, "and that is the same thing. See!" she continued, pointing to the corner of the house.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And why is it that you and your old woman are without meat at the end of your years?

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

"Ye'll excoose me, I know, for a-chaffin' of ye, but the old woman here winked at me, which was as much as telling me to go on."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An old woman opened: I asked was this the parsonage?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There may be some old woman at Thornton Lacey to be converted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This sound disturbed an old woman who was sleeping in a chair beside me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)