What's the difference between governess and woman?

Governess


Definition:

  • (n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.
  • (2) Greece remained centre-stage, after the Athens goverment stated that German chancellor Angela Merkel had suggested that the Greeks hold a referendum on their membership of the eurozone .
  • (3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
  • (4) He said a Conservative goverment would sack the heads of schools that had been in "special measures" – the most serious category of concern – for more than a year.
  • (5) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
  • (6) The governess of her early self-portrait was now a rather brazen woman, speaking of "things I never thought of before".
  • (7) The Cuban goverment is torn between isolation and closer links with the US.
  • (8) Part of the NSW Young Nationals’ motion was to condemn the goverment’s decision to deny its members a conscience vote.
  • (9) Slive closely shows how the paintings work technically as group portraits of the governors and governesses of the Haarlem almshouses where the impoverished Hals himself received charity; but Berger says of Slive’s analysis, “It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.” However prone Slive may be to an art historian’s preference for painterly values over social discourse, his analysis is nevertheless closer to the heart of the matter than Berger’s fanciful account of a kind of class stand-off between the destitute artist and the governors, not least because on another and more likely reading, given Hals’s approach to portraiture even of men and women in their prime, these two groups are painted with compassion but above all with a sharp eye for laying down what was before him.
  • (10) Updated at 7.26pm BST 7.15pm BST Antonis Samaras's new olive branch over state broadcaster ERT boils down to three points: 1) a temporary committee to hire a small number of staff to make current affairs programmes 2) a parliament vote on creating the new public broadcaster soon, maybe next week 3) loyalty and support from the junior coalition partners, to ensure the goverment keeps running.
  • (11) She becomes the governess to an aristocrat's children.
  • (12) Charlotte was an obscure, ugly parson's daughter, a sometime governess and schoolmistress.
  • (13) Dialogue with ministers must represent the views and interests of users of services, which local goverment is uniquely well placed and experienced to do, and must, where appropriate, include criticism.
  • (14) Iata, which is also demanding that European goverments compensate the airline industry, initially estimated that airlines were losing $200m a day .
  • (15) Marcus Gover, director of closed loop recycling at Wrap, said: "It is important that rigid plastic packaging is effectively recycled as if not carried out properly rigid plastics can contaminate the highly valuable plastic bottle waste stream – which would not be good for the economy or the environment.
  • (16) She sends the boy to cousins on a farm in England, where a piano-playing governess awakens the lust that proves the keynote in a series of fragmented episodes set during the years before the first world war – a prospect G relishes on account of all the women it will widow.
  • (17) The services given by the goverment to adolescent pregnant patients are insufficient and require immediate attention by society.
  • (18) It wasn't until many years later that I realised that Hayley Mills's mysterious governess in the 1964 film The Chalk Garden is called Miss Madrigal.
  • (19) The months since have seen a string of attacks on the community, heightened anti-Christian rhetoric by ultra-conservatives known as Salafis and fears that coming goverments will try to impose strict versions of Islamic law.
  • (20) Gover said football fans may not mean offence when they use the name, but that was no reason to keep using it.

Woman


Definition:

  • (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
  • (n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.
  • (n.) A female attendant or servant.
  • (v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
  • (v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (2) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (3) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (4) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
  • (5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (6) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (7) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (8) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
  • (9) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
  • (10) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (11) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
  • (12) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (13) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
  • (14) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
  • (15) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
  • (16) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
  • (17) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
  • (18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
  • (19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
  • (20) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.