girlhood
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈɡɜrlhʊd/
- During her girlhood, she spent every summer playing in the garden.
- girlhood home
- black girlhood
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Watch on YouTubeAnd it's just about like the darkness of girlhood and and just oh, it had so much.
- And it's just about like the darkness of girlhood and and just oh, it had so much.
Examples
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I think at 14 years of age you're getting ready to give up your girlhood!
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Just as those girlhood days had been rich in their solitudes, she was alone now.
Fiction book (2000) -
But it was a funny girlhood moment.
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You light a fire early in your girlhood.
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There I became very attached to several of her close friends from her girlhood.
Academic text (2014) -
Her scenes of Southern California girlhood are devastating and sad.
Fiction book (1997) -
So many of us were letting go of girlhood nicknames now that we were grown.
Fiction book (1995) -
How might we disrupt and replace such a construction of girlhood?
Academic text (2018) -
McCullers's first girlhood crush on her piano teacher both inspired and confused her.
Academic text (2008) -
For my mother, the condominium was the fulfillment of a girlhood fantasy of living like a bachelorette.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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The time in life when someone is a child before becoming a teenager
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9.3
A girl's time before she gets married
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9.9
The time when a girl is young before she becomes an adult
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Girlhood is made from girl plus the old suffix -hood, from the Old English word hād meaning 'state' or 'time'. So girlhood is the 'period' or 'state' of being a girl, just like childhood or adulthood.