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US
/ˈwʊmənˌhʊd/
]
[ UK /wˈʊmənhˌʊd/ ]
[ UK /wˈʊmənhˌʊd/ ]
NOUN
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women as a class
it's an insult to American womanhood
woman is the glory of creation
the fair sex gathered on the veranda - the state of being an adult woman
- the status of a woman
How To Use womanhood In A Sentence
- Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
- I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
- The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
- This fabric, which appears in most works, is apparently associated with an induction into womanhood amongst Xhosa people.
- It basically came down to this for me: FGM is about controlling women – specifically about controlling the sexuality of girls and controlling their transition to and experience of womanhood – whereas my understanding of cultural/religious reasons for male circumcision is that those are different. The First Cut | Her Bad Mother
- And in any case, polyandry is certainly not the ideal for Indian womanhood.
- Whether or not these methods were flawed matters not; what is important is that ideal womanhood was, in part, physical.
- I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
- According to Hero, most of what he does is in defense of womanhood. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.