Womanhood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Womanhood \Wom"an*hood\, n.
     1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character
        or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
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              Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. --Spenser.


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              Perhaps the smile and the tender tone
              Came out of her pitying womanhood.    --Tennyson.
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     2. Women, collectively; womankind.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  womanhood
       n 1: the state of being an adult woman [syn: {muliebrity}]
       2: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
          "woman is the glory of creation" [syn: {woman}]
       3: the status of a woman

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "womanhood":
     adulthood, adultness, age of consent, distaff side, driving age,
     fair sex, female sex, femaleness, feminacy, feminality, femineity,
     feminineness, femininity, flower of age, full age, full bloom,
     full growth, fullgrownness, gentlewomanliness, girlishness,
     grown-upness, ladylikeness, legal age, legalis homo,
     little-girlishness, maidenhood, maidenliness, majority, manhood,
     manlihood, matronage, matronhood, matronliness, matronship,
     mature age, maturity, muliebrity, prime, prime of life, ripe age,
     riper years, second sex, softer sex, the eternal feminine,
     toga virilis, virility, weaker sex, weaker vessel, woman,
     womanishness, womanity, womankind, womanlihood, womanlikeness,
     womanliness, women, womenfolk, womenfolks, years of discretion