Definitions for girlhood

girlhood girl·hood

Spelling: [gurl-hoo d]
IPA: /ˈgɜrl hʊd/

Girlhood is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in girlhood (dghiloor).

Definitions for girlhood

noun

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

Origin of girlhood

First recorded in 1775-85; girl + -hood

Examples for girlhood

Because I will never cause you to blush for the history of your wife's girlhood.

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

The Lolas, bonded in girlhood, split up when they go to in college.

Her girlhood had in it a certain dignity as of a virgin priestess or sibyl.

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

Hester Paine, as a young lady, fulfills the promise of her girlhood.

The complacent sophistries of her girlhood no longer answered for truth.

It was a face of girlhood, almost mature—a face with wonderment on it now.

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

She appeared to be reveling in a second girlhood—or maybe her first.

Word Value for girlhood
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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