"womanhood" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈwʊmənhʊd/ Forms: womanhoods [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|womanhoode}} Middle English womanhoode, {{m|enm|wommanhod}} wommanhod, {{m|enm|whomanhode}} whomanhode, {{m|enm|wommanhede}} wommanhede, {{surf|en|woman|-hood}} By surface analysis, woman + -hood Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)
  1. The state or condition of being a woman. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being a woman): naiseus (Finnish), féminité (French), ქალობა (kaloba) (Georgian), Weiblichkeit [feminine] (German), Fraulichkeit [feminine] (German), Frausein [neuter] (German), muliebris status (Latin), wahinetanga (Maori), же́нственность (žénstvennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), kvinnlighet [common-gender] (Swedish), స్త్రీత్వము (strītvamu) (Telugu), kadınlık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-womanhood-en-noun-3-8Ue8gj Disambiguation of 'state of being a woman': 47 19 12 19 3
  2. All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: womankind[universal]] or worldwide> Translations (women as a group): жените (ženite) (Bulgarian), naiset (Finnish), naisväki (Finnish), ქალები (kalebi) (Georgian), მდედრობითი სქესი (mdedrobiti skesi) (Georgian), სუსტი სქესი (susṭi skesi) (Georgian), alle Frauen [feminine, plural] (German), Frauen [feminine, plural] (German), hunga wāhine (Maori), же́нский пол (žénskij pol) [masculine] (Russian), же́нщины (žénščiny) [feminine, plural] (Russian), жіно́цтво (žinóctvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-womanhood-en-noun-Mxon6NY0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -hood Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 48 13 34 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 44 12 36 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -hood: 8 40 14 34 4 Disambiguation of 'women as a group': 9 71 7 8 4
  3. The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: womanishness, womanliness
    Sense id: en-womanhood-en-noun-n4gja3~e Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -hood Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 44 12 36 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -hood: 8 40 14 34 4
  4. The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (qualities considered typical for a woman): же́нственост (žénstvenost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), naisellisuus (Finnish), féminité (French), ქალურობა (kaluroba) (Georgian), Fraulichkeit [feminine] (German), muliēbritās [feminine] (Latin), sievišķība [feminine] (Latvian), же́нственность (žénstvennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), feminidad (Spanish), kvinnlighet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-womanhood-en-noun-W1-ZHDkg Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -hood Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 3 36 10 49 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 44 12 36 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -hood: 8 40 14 34 4 Disambiguation of 'qualities considered typical for a woman': 16 23 18 40 3
  5. (euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva. Tags: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Categories (topical): Female, Genitalia
    Sense id: en-womanhood-en-noun-Vi66E~z8 Disambiguation of Female: 1 13 3 20 63 Disambiguation of Genitalia: 1 15 5 9 70 Categories (other): English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: womanhead [obsolete], womonhood, womynhood, wommonhood Related terms: girlhood, boyhood, childhood, trans womanhood Coordinate_terms: manhood

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          "text": "There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!",
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          "ref": "1917, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, quoting Carlos F. Hurd, chapter II, in [Untitled, From the St. Louis Post Dispatch], July 3rd, 1917, quoted in The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century, retrieved 2020-11-19, page 12",
          "text": "[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were.",
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        "(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva."
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    }
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}
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's \"Deeds of Terrible Virtue\"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National Endowment for the Humanities, published 1988, archived from the original on 2017-01-05",
          "text": "There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!",
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        },
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          "ref": "1917, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, quoting Carlos F. Hurd, chapter II, in [Untitled, From the St. Louis Post Dispatch], July 3rd, 1917, quoted in The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century, retrieved 2020-11-19, page 12",
          "text": "[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920 [1909], Henry Van Dyke, “The Red Flower and Golden Stars”, in The Poems of Henry Van Dyke, new and revised edition, dated to 1914–1916, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Jeanne d’Arc Returns, page 384, lines 1–5",
          "text": "What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "subgroup"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "womankind[universal]] or worldwide>"
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "word": "manhood"
        },
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          "word": "mannishness"
        },
        {
          "word": "manliness"
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      ],
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, page 31",
          "text": "From the kitchen comes the even murmur of their voices. Mother and daughter: the protocols of womanhood being passed on, generation to generation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264",
          "text": "Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.",
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        "(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "naiseus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "féminité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kaloba",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "ქალობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Weiblichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fraulichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Frausein"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "muliebris status"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "wahinetanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žénstvennostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "же́нственность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kvinnlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "strītvamu",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "స్త్రీత్వము"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state of being a woman",
      "word": "kadınlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "žénstvenost",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "же́нственост"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "word": "naisellisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "word": "féminité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kaluroba",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "word": "ქალურობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Fraulichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muliēbritās"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sievišķība"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žénstvennostʹ",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "же́нственность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "word": "feminidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "qualities considered typical for a woman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kvinnlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ženite",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "жените"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "naiset"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "naisväki"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kalebi",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "ქალები"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mdedrobiti skesi",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "მდედრობითი სქესი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "susṭi skesi",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "სუსტი სქესი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "alle Frauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Frauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "word": "hunga wāhine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žénskij pol",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "же́нский пол"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žénščiny",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "же́нщины"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žinóctvo",
      "sense": "women as a group",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "жіно́цтво"
    }
  ],
  "word": "womanhood"
}

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