frau

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

frau, n. [G. Cf. 1st Frow.].

 In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frau, n. (pl. Frauen) (often as a title) a married or widowed German woman.

Etymology

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THESAURUS

frau

Eve, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, domina, dona, donna, dowager, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, lady, lass, madam, madame, mademoiselle, matron, mem-sahib, mesdames, milady, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, squaw, vrouw, wahine, weaker vessel, woman

ROGET THESAURUS

frau

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.