Man quits job over bad woo

[John V]

You've just proven my point: dictionaries have different definitions. You *cannot* simply trust any single dictionary.

First, we don't know that yours disagrees, as you haven't provided the link.

Second, your protest is disingenuous. If I show similar definitions of woman from several dictionaries, you'll still say nuh-uh.

A dictionary is a list of words with attached meaning/equivalents... it is not the end-all authority on language.

It's not an authority so much as a reflection of current usage.

You could grab every dictionary in the world, and still not have every word used in them.

I'm pretty sure all the current English ones have woman in them.

Plenty of words and potential words are simply ignored as 'archaic' or 'slang' or 'not proper'...

They're not ignored, they're marked as those things if current usage requires it.

and restricting oneself to use of only *one* dictionary only puts one further behind understanding the language (as I demonstrated).

See above. If multiple dictionaries will change your mind, I'll post them.