Usually means: Elderly female with extensive life experience.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word old woman:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. old woman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. old woman: Merriam-Webster
  3. old woman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. old woman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. old woman: Vocabulary.com
  6. old woman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. old woman: Wiktionary
  8. old woman: Dictionary.com
  9. Old woman, The Old Woman (White Wolf character): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. old woman: Rhymezone
  11. old woman: FreeDictionary.org
  12. old woman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. old woman: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Woman: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. old woman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The old woman, old woman: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (old woman)

▸ noun:  (literally) An elderly woman.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal, derogatory) A person (irrespective of age or sex) who is always complaining about his or her situation.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal, slang) One's wife.
▸ noun:  (countable, informal, slang) One's mother.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The plant sea wormwood.

Similar:
dusty miller, artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, old lady, old wife, elderly, mother, oldwife, old dear, dear, more...

Phrases:
old man and woman, There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, The Old Woman in the Wood, more...

Adjectives:
anile, dear, major, weazen, old, ageist, old-womanish, og, gray, aged, geriatric

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Similar:
dusty miller, artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, old lady, old wife, elderly, mother, oldwife, old dear, dear, more...

Phrases:
old man and woman, There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman, The Old Woman in the Wood, like a feeble old woman, ugly old woman, more...

Adjectives:
anile, dear, major, weazen, old, ageist, old-womanish, og, gray, aged, geriatric



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