newspaperman vs adult female

newspaperman and adult female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
newspaperman	Yes	No	No	No
adult female	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult female is a hypernym of newspaperman; that is, adult female is a word with a broader meaning than newspaperman:

newspaperman: a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
adult female: an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

Other hypernyms of newspaperman include correspondent, newswriter, woman.

newspaperman (noun)	adult female (noun)
a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media	an adult female person (as opposed to a man)