woman's body
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- noun
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cuerpo de la mujer
- You know, my mother makes dresses to celebrate a woman's body.
Examples
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A lot of men I’ve dealt with don’t know a thing about a woman’s body.
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But, earlier, this morning, a woman's body was discovered.
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I have never met a man who knows so much about a woman's body.
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We found a woman's body over on 9th Street.
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The woman's body had been submerged for weeks.
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Dresses were often cut on the bias, creating a narrow although fluid shape that highlighted women's bodies.
Academic text (2015) -
From a few feet back, Doctor Hebert saw the woman's body illuminated as high as her rib cage.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every woman's body is different.
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Silent Bob and I are pro-choice: a woman's body is her own business.
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Yet, egg cells are created inside a woman's body before she is born.
Synonyms
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1.4
The shape and parts of a woman or girl
Surface Forms
Morphology
woman's + body
The meaning 'the body of an adult female human' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'woman' (adult female) with 'body' (physical structure), with the possessive '-s' simply indicating ownership. This possessive noun + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows basic English composition rules, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Woman's body is a simple name that joins woman (an adult female) and body (the physical form). So it paints the clear image of a woman's physical form and means 'the body of an adult female', used in art, health, and everyday talk to describe a woman's shape or changes like pregnancy.