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Broad wife: Also broad husband; spouse of an enslaved person who lived on another plantation or in another settlement. [2] Buck: Male enslaved person, usually of reproductive age and often with a sexually suggestive connotation. [3] Coastwise: Transportation of enslaved people by ocean-going ship between the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. [4]
The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.
The word woman can be used generally, to mean any female human, or specifically, to mean an adult female human as contrasted with girl. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" in English; [19] it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. [20]
Broad Group, a manufacturing company based in Changsha; Broad (British coin), an English gold coin minted under the Commonwealth; Broad Institute, a genomic research institute; an 18th-century slang term for a playing card; The Broad, a modern art museum in Los Angeles, California; The Broad (folk custom), a hooded-animal tradition in the ...
Cambridge Dictionary has expanded its definition of the word "woman" to be inclusive of transgender women. In addition to the longtime definition of the word, "an adult female human being," in the ...
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The UK's highest court will decide whether whether trans women can be regarded as female under the Equality Act. Judges consider ruling on definition of a woman Skip to main content
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