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 Translation for 'old woman' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   an old woman | old women
SYNO Artemisia stelleriana | beach wormwood | dusty miller | ...
kelling {kv} [kerling]old woman
kerling {kv} [niðr.]old woman [pej.]
Partial Matches
hálfþrítugur {adj}twenty-five-year-old [attr.] <25-year-old>
hálffimmtugur {adj}forty-five-year-old [attr.] <45-year-old>
áttræður {adj}eighty-year-old [attr.] <80-year-old>
níræður {adj}ninety-year-old [attr.] <90-year-old>
tvítugur {adj}twenty-year-old [attr.] <20-year-old>
þrítugur {adj}thirty-year-old [attr.] <30-year-old>
sjötugur {adj}seventy-year-old [attr.] <70-year-old>
sextugur {adj}sixty-year-old [attr.] <60-year-old>
fimmtugur {adj}fifty-year-old [attr.] <50-year-old>
fertugur {adj}forty-year-old [attr.] <40-year-old>
víf {hv} [skáldamál]woman
sprund {hv} [skáldamál]woman
kvenmaður {k}woman
kona {kv}woman
fljóð {hv} [skáldamál]woman
atv.fatn.
þvottakona {kv}
washing woman
ambátt {kv}slave woman
þvottakona {kv}laundry woman
sómakær kona {kv}decent woman
atv.mennt.
kennslukona {kv}
woman teacher
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Usage Examples English
  • Ford tries once again to catch his wife with the knight but ends up beating the "old woman", whom he despises, and throwing her out of his house.
  • She is described as a beautiful old woman and by her aspect people saw that she belonged to the "subterraneans".
  • The dog is adopted by an old woman who was present during the attack.
  • In September 2010, a Swedish court acquitted a 32-year-old man of assault for engaging in consensual BDSM play with a 16-year-old woman (the age of consent in Sweden is 15).
  • The bat slipped from his hands, was launched into the stands and struck a 60-year-old woman who turned out to be the housekeeper of the Red Sox general manager Joe Cronin.

  • The Italian story "La Stella di Burbank", where she is portrayed as a myopic old woman who doesn't realize she needs to wear glasses, is presumably her first comic book appearance.
  • Following his death, police arrested a 21-year-old woman who posted a Facebook comment against him, as well as her friend who "liked" the comment.
  • The plot centers on an 18-year-old woman Treemonisha who is taught to read by a white woman and then leads her community against the influence of conjurers who prey on ignorance and superstition.
  • She talks with an old woman who gives her a message for Al.
  • In the document, which includes character biographies, it confirms that when the series began (2371) – "B'Elanna is a beautiful 25-year-old woman who is half-human, half-Klingon..."

  • Flea picked up a 20-year-old woman and threw her into the sand, while Smith forcibly removed her bathing suit and slapped her buttocks.
  • Postmenopausal women have a higher rate of osteoporosis and fractures than older men. A 60-year-old woman has a 44% risk of fracture while a 60-year-old man has a 25% risk of fracture.
  • Although frequently recognized as a painter, Dix drew self-portraits and portraits of others using the medium of silverpoint on prepared paper. "Old Woman," drawn in 1932, was exhibited with old-master drawings.
  • Murray's work in Egyptology and archaeology was widely acclaimed and earned her the nickname of "The Grand Old Woman of Egyptology", although after her death many of her contributions to the field were overshadowed by those of Petrie.
  • Albert was accused of sexually assaulting a 42-year-old woman named Vanessa Perhach in 1997.

  • Sahaptin has an ergative noun case (with suffix "-nɨm") that is limited to transitive constructions only when the direct object is 1st or 2nd person: "iwapáatayaaš łmámanɨm" ‘the old woman helped me’; "paanáy iwapáataya łmáma" ‘the old woman helped him/her’ (direct); "páwapaataya łmámayin" ‘the old woman helped him/her’ (inverse).
  • Unity is of medium height, with reddish-brown hair that she wears long and loose, in the final dream-meeting between herself, Rose, and Dream; as the old woman of waking life, she has grey hair and wears a curiously old-fashioned dress.
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