"Wonder Woman" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈwʌndə ˈwʊmən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwʌndɚ ˈwʊmən/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-Wonder Woman.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From wonder + woman. The character, created by William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) and Harry George Peter (1880–1958), first appeared in DC Comics’ All Star Comics #8 dated December 1941. Etymology templates: {{af|en|wonder|woman}} wonder + woman Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Wonder Woman}} Wonder Woman
  1. A DC Comics superheroine. Categories (topical): DC Comics, Fictional characters, People Translations (DC Comics character): ওয়ান্ডার ওম্যান (oanḍar omên) (Bengali), 神力女超人 (Shénlìnǚ Chāorén) (Chinese Mandarin), Miraklovirino (Esperanto), Ihmenainen (Finnish), Wonder Woman (French), Γουόντερ Γούμαν (Gouónter Goúman) (Greek), וונדר וומן [feminine] (Hebrew), ワンダーウーマン (Wandā Ūman) (Japanese), 원더 우먼 (Wondeo Umeon) (Korean), वंडर वूमन (vaṇḍar vūman) [feminine] (Marathi), Wonder Woman [feminine] (Polish), Mulher-Maravilha (Portuguese), Чу́до-Же́нщина (Čúdo-Žénščina) [feminine] (Russian), Mujer Maravilla [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Wonder_Woman-en-name--dtT-Y94 Disambiguation of DC Comics: 90 10 Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 56 44 Disambiguation of People: 58 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10

Noun

IPA: /ˈwʌndə ˈwʊmən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwʌndɚ ˈwʊmən/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-Wonder Woman.ogg [Australia] Forms: Wonder Women [plural]
Etymology: From wonder + woman. The character, created by William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) and Harry George Peter (1880–1958), first appeared in DC Comics’ All Star Comics #8 dated December 1941. Etymology templates: {{af|en|wonder|woman}} wonder + woman Head templates: {{en-noun|Wonder Women|head=Wonder Woman}} Wonder Woman (plural Wonder Women)
  1. (by extension of the proper noun) A woman of extraordinary powers; a superwoman. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Female
    Sense id: en-Wonder_Woman-en-noun-bvfez0TB Disambiguation of Female: 31 69

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo",
    "DC Comics",
    "William Moulton Marston"
  ],
  "word": "Wonder Woman"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.