womanhood

/ˈwʊmənhʊd/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈwʊmənhʊd/

womanhood

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

wo - man - hood -> womanhood

Myanmar meaning

မိန်းမဘဝ၊ အရွယ်ရောက်ခြင်း။ မိန်းမသဘာဝ၊ ဉာဉ်။ မိန်းမမျိုးနွယ်။

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womanhood /'wƱmǝnhƱd/ n [U]

၁။ အမျိုးသမီးအရွယ် ရောက်ခြင်း။ grow to/ reach womanhood.
၂။ မိန်းမဘဝ။ German womanhood.

More examples

‘Some of that love is transferred to Kavita Asrani who Vishnu has watched blossom from childhood to full blown womanhood.’
‘I was uncovering a powerful voice of womanhood, embracing woman's strength, and heeding woman's necessary urging call.’
‘Rachel and Samson fight over their guests, leaving Samson to ponder the complexities of womanhood that he does not understand.’
‘What I am interested in is this: exactly how positive is Tarantino's portrayal of women in this movie, and does it reflect a standard of womanhood with which I identify?’
‘Kate Sheedy is a very pretty, intelligent and articulate girl teetering on the brink of womanhood.’
‘This fabric, which appears in most works, is apparently associated with an induction into womanhood amongst Xhosa people.’
‘She had been true to her independent nature, fulfilling her womanhood in a manner that she found appropriate, although unable to assert herself finally.’
‘At 17, Cassandra is poised on the brink of womanhood.’
‘We see Annie Allen grow from childhood to womanhood in an atmosphere conditioned by poverty, racial discrimination, parental expectations, and unhappiness.’
‘The sources girls turn to most often, such as teen magazines, offer them a very limited view of what comprises femininity and womanhood.’
‘It is one that has long existed not only as a cultural dimension for ethnic, national and religious communities but for other groups too; feminists find their identity in their womanhood and the Welsh in their language.’
‘Even in childhood and young womanhood, there is little of the contingent and insignificant detail which humanises the great.’
‘Sentimental literature was often written for and about the lives of girls on the brink of womanhood; young women such as Sarah Connell were among its prime consumers.’
‘While the artist continues to look into the beauty of womanhood in all its femininity and grace through this technique, the watercolours reflect his old passion for architectural forms.’
‘The film tells a personal story of emerging womanhood through Geneviève, when her lover is drafted to war-torn Algeria.’
‘I have always considered them a frivolity that does nothing to enhance the condition of womanhood.’
‘She tells a story of childhood and young womanhood, simultaneously mulling over what's become of her by the 1990s.’
‘Yet while she recognizes the limiting conditions of constructed womanhood, Brittain refuses to accept them.’
‘Some say it is a ritual initiation into womanhood.’
‘Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday.’

Synonyms

adulthood, maturity, manhood, adult years, independence, ability, advancement, age of consent, capability, civilization, coming of age, completion, cultivation, delicacy, development, distaff, docility, drinking age, effeminate, effeminateness, effete, estate, experience, fecundity, femaleness, females, feminality, femineity, feminineness, femininity, fertile, fertility, fitness, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullness, gender, gentleness, girlishness, gynic, kindness, legal age, legal maturity, majority, manfulness, manliness, marriageable age, masculinity, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, mettle, muliebrity, perfection, postpubescence, potency, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripe age, ripeness, seniority, sexuality, softness, sophistication, virility, voting age, wisdom, womanish, womankind, womanliness, womanly, womanness, women, womenfolk, womenfolks

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