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AI OverviewIn 1980, the definition of woman in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary was "an adult female person." [1, 2]
Details of the 1980 Definition

• Primary Sense (1a): An adult female person.

• Secondary Sense (1b): A woman belonging to a particular category (such as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation, usually used in combination like councilwoman).

• Additional Senses: Womankind, or a distinctively feminine nature/womanliness.

Female:


AI OverviewIn 1980, Webster's dictionary (specifically the prevailing editions of the era, such as the 8th edition of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) defined female primarily in biological and reproductive terms: as an individual or organism that bears young or produces eggs. [1]
Historical Definition (c. 1980)

• As an Adjective/Noun: Defined fundamentally as of, relating to, or being the sex that produces offspring, conceives, or bears young and produces eggs (as distinguished from the male, which performs the fertilizing function).

Noticeably different is "feels like" or "identifies as".