woman

1.woman单独用指一般女子。例如：In the old society woman's sphere was said to be the home. 和Woman is not at all weaker than man, neither physically nor intellectually. the woman往往指女子的特性。例如：He has much of the woman in him. 和There is little of the woman in her.

2.woman用作形容词跟female相同，如woman doctor和woman friend。假使那个名词是复数，通常用复数形式women，偶尔用单数形式woman，如women clerks，women doctors和women friends里的women偶尔改用woman。

3.形容doctor(s)，friend(s)，counsellor(s)，student(s)等词，当然只可用woman或women，不可用woman's或women's。woman movement（妇女运动）和woman suffrage（妇女参政权）等表达方式里的woman不可改作women。但也有人用woman's suffrage或women's suffrage。

严格地说，woman's统指“女性”或“女子们”，women's指“一个一个的女子”，但事实上竟可以说没有区别，如woman's rights（女权）和women's rights，woman's opportunity和women's opportunity，woman's college和women's college。