womanhood
pronunciation
How to pronounce womanhood in British English:
UK [ˈwʊmənhʊd]
How to pronounce womanhood in American English:
US [ˈwʊmənˌhʊd]
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- Noun:
- the state of being an adult woman
- women as a class
- the status of a woman
Word Origin
- womanhood (n.)
- late 14c., "condition of being a woman," also "qualities or characteristics considered natural to a woman," from woman + -hood. Meaning "women collectively" is attested from 1520s.
Example
- 1. But my real qualification for sharing my thoughts on beauty is 35 years of womanhood .
- 2. It is later that female writers begin to feel routinely , sometimes suicidally , trapped by their womanhood .
- 3. " It is the notion that there is something more precious about motherhood and womanhood and domesticity and femininity that often drives the resistance to opening combat to women , " ms. coughlin notes .
- 4. Other cultures honor this transition into womanhood .
- 5. The journey into womanhood has no set beginning .