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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wom·an n.; pl. Women
 1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
    Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.   --Shak.
    And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.   --Gen. ii. 22.
    I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.   --J. Ledyard.
 2. The female part of the human race; womankind.
    Man is destined to be a prey to woman.   --Thackeray.
 3. A female attendant or servant.  By her woman I sent your message.”
 Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 woman hater
      n : a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular [syn: misogynist]