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girlhood

[ gurl-hood ]

noun

  1. the state or time of being a girl.
  2. girls collectively:

    the nation's girlhood.



girlhood

/ ˈɡɜːlˌhʊd /

noun

  1. the state or time of being a girl


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  • pre·girlhood noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of girlhood1

First recorded in 1775–85; girl + -hood

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Example Sentences

Throughout, as she explores girlhood, freedom, sex and more, Allen shines a light on the spaces that connect and divide us, coalescing into an electric portrait of joy and pain.

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The Texas filmmaker begins simply by explaining her girlhood obsession with the film, but soon hops into the story to partner with a shirtless Patrick Swayze.

She is a genius at writing about both the anxious space between girlhood and womanhood and the charged energy of youth.

It should have been a warm reunion, filled with talks of girlhood and current undertakings.

She had trained since girlhood to be a professional and once performed at Carnegie Hall with the company led by modern dance icon Martha Graham.

The tough African-French girls living in the projects in Girlhood have been abused and pushed out of the system.

The original French title, Bande de Filles (girl gang) was translated to Girlhood in order to appeal more to American audiences.

She is the author of Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (Ticknor Fields, 1989).

Frieda spent her girlhood in the embrace of her extended family, living a few blocks from both sets of grandparents.

I do love that photo: I just think it captures girlhood perfectly.

He had seen Mildred creep from babyhood into childhood, and bud from girlhood to womanhood.

Every detail of the accident is repeated again and again, with many incidents of Amy's girlhood.

Daphne's "simplicity," the pose of her girlhood, was in fact breaking down in all directions.

He almost shrank from her, though she stood there as inviting and innocent a specimen of girlhood as the eye could wish to see.

The one great unhappiness in Queen Wilhelmina's girlhood was that she wanted children and was deprived of having them.

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