womanhood
/ˈwʊmənhʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood."
- ""I swear, even in this most holy hour of completed Womanhood, that I will abandon Evil and cherish Good.""
- "There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!"
- "[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were."
- "What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?"
- "What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood – exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings – quickly became a parody so gauche it’s hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously."
Etymology
From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: womanhoode