Word family noun woman womanhood womankind womanizer womanizing womanliness adjective womanly womanish verb womanize
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwomanhoodwom‧an‧hood /ˈwʊmənhʊd/ noun [uncountable] 1 WOMANthe state of being a woman, not a man or a girl2 formalWOMAN women in general → manhoodExamples from the Corpus
womanhood• The New York Times called it a temple to the spirit of emancipated womanhood.• I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.• This was not an attractive proposition, but my idea of womanhood was hardly preferable.• I rejected womanhood, not because I preferred manhood, but because I preferred girlhood.• She had grown to womanhood through him.• When she was maturing into young womanhood Baldersdale was well populated with youngsters of equivalent age - that is to say eligible for Hannah. 