Hypertext Webster Gateway: "womanhood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Womanhood \Wom"an*hood\, n.
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character
or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. --Spenser.
Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of
her pitying womanhood. --Tennyson.
2. Women, collectively; womankind.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
womanhood
n 1: the state of being an adult woman [syn: {muliebrity}]
2: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood";
"woman is the glory of creation" [syn: {woman}]
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