Word Finder - womanhood

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The state or condition of being an adult female human being, as distinguished from a child or a man Compare adulthood. Contrast manhood and childhood.

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All of the adult female human beingss of a given locality, region, district, country, nation or state, or all of the adult female humans pertaining to a given human subgroup (culture, ethnicity, race, etc.), regarded collectively

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• womankind

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The idealized nature of an adult female human: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness, as regarded collectively

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• womanishness
• womanliness

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The self-concept of a woman (an adult female human being) 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.

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The female genitalia, especially the vulva

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• junk

To a youth and womanhood of storm and stress had succeeded an old age of serene activity and then of calm decay.

For many years the island was inhabited by greybeards and children; the young men and women of all classes, so soon as they had reached manhood and womanhood, crossed Bass Strait, and entered upon the wider life and the more brilliant prospects which first Victoria, and subsequently New South Wales and Queensland, afforded them.

It's about tradition and celebrating your entry into womanhood with your loved ones.

The story centers on Stavia, daughter of the leader of Marthatown, as she grows from the age of ten to womanhood, discovering the secrets of the matriarchy.

Learning to tame occasionally erratic emotions, fight frequent fluctuations in weight and endure premenstrual complications is a natural part of womanhood.

Thus the "Nemesis," belonging probably to 1503, is a marvellously wrought piece of quite unflinching realism in the rendering of a common type of mature, muscular, unshapely German womanhood.

Alarmed, the Trust tried to unload; militant womanhood, thoroughly aroused, scorned compromise.

Jewelry with this symbol is sometimes accompanied by a nude woman's form to represent the goddess and womanhood.

Still others are excited to finally enter the realm of womanhood, especially those who were late bloomers and were still wearing undershirts while all the other girls around them were wearing bras.

A strong type of womanhood is revealed in the correspondence of St Boniface with various Saxon Benedictine nuns, some in England and some who accompanied him to the continent and there established great convents.

Slight as the story is, it is worked out into one of the most affecting poems in the language, and gives to literature one of its most perfect types of womanhood and of "affection that hopes and endures and is patient."

As she grew to womanhood she became inclined to silence, and spent much of her time in solitude and prayer.

Shift a live art commission undertaken to celebrate womanhood and multi-culturalism for International Women's day at the Brady arts center in London.

But we point our daughters to the Bible, to see that true womanhood involves character, not external beauty.

Here he found a little girl who had bloomed into young womanhood during the six years away.

The " Titus 2 " vision calls for active efforts to pass on a vision of biblical womanhood to young women.

She stood as a symbol of Indian womanhood and a new independent nation.

Shift a live art commission undertaken to celebrate womanhood and multi-culturalism for International Women 's day at the Brady arts center in London.