DISTAFF
\dɪstˈaf], \dɪstˈaf], \d_ɪ_s_t_ˈa_f]\
Definitions of DISTAFF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
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the sphere of work by women
By Princeton University
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characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
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the sphere of work by women
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
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Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
By Oddity Software
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The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
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Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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