'Womanhood' definitions:
Definition of 'womanhood'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being an adult woman [syn: womanhood, muliebrity]
noun
Women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda" [syn: womanhood, woman, fair sex]
noun
The status of a woman
Definition of 'Womanhood'
From: GCIDE
- Womanhood \Wom"an*hood\, n.
- 1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. [1913 Webster]
- Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Women, collectively; womankind. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'womanhood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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