Definitions for wifehood

wifehood wife·hood

Spelling: [wahyf-hoo d]
IPA: /ˈwaɪf hʊd/

Wifehood is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in wifehood (defhioow).

Definitions for wifehood

noun

  1. the state of being a wife.
  2. wifely character or quality; wifeliness.

Origin of wifehood

1350-1400; Middle English wifhood, Old English wīfhād. See wife, -hood

Examples for wifehood

Their ideal of wifehood and motherhood is fundamentally wrong.

She is new to wifehood, and she stands a little in awe of Jasper Wilmarth.

She put it to herself that—as she believed—she had a talent for wifehood.

What standard of womanhood and wifehood remained to such men?

She accepts the disadvantages of wifehood and foregoes the advantages.

Then it occurred to her, for the first time in her wifehood, to think what she would do if he were lost.

The eldest early assumed the burdens of wifehood and maternity.

It was no trivial task, she saw, to face Jeff's wife and drag her back to wifehood.

For seven years she had been absorbed in wifehood and motherhood.

Shall these women, it is asked, be denied motherhood as well as wifehood?

Word Value for wifehood
Scrable

18

Words with friends

17

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