manhood
/ˈmænhʊd/
Frequency: 3.16 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He feared the speedy decline of all manhood."
- "Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou."
- "He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood."
- "Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age."
- "The Caves of Ajanta, the medieval Courts of Love, the epithalamia of the erotic poets [...] all testify to the glorification of manhood, the supremacy of the sex motif."
- "(exclusively and universally: only synonymous in cases for which women are excluded, and when the meaning of manhood is universal or worldwide)"