Synonyms:
womanhood
Meaning: the status of a woman
Synonyms:
womanhood, woman, fair_sex
Meaning: women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"
Synonyms:
womanhood, muliebrity
Meaning: the state of being an adult woman
Usage examples
She was no longer a girl and hungered to reach into the grace and beauty of womanhood.
They are in every female at birth, and as the girl develops into womanhood, these ovules develop also.
Don't be ridiculous, please,' begged the bashful lover, eager, but afraid of this sharp-tongued bit of womanhood.
The years passed slowly, and I continued to serve them, and at the same time grew into strong, healthy womanhood.
For ten long years afterward I never again met with my little Mary; I never even heard whether she had lived to grow to womanhood or not.
At this time he confined himself more than usual to his own house, and for companionship he was constantly with Violet, who was now approaching womanhood.
The story of her womanhood should indeed be told, if we would study her life as a whole; but for us, who can in this paper deal only with her romantic girlhood, her young life is to be taken as a type of the stirring and extravagant days of chivalry.
There she stood--not three months since the spoiled darling of her parents; the priceless treasure of the household, never left unprotected, never trusted alone--there she stood in the lovely dawn of her womanhood, a castaway in a strange city, wrecked on the world!