Definitions for wifehoods

wifehoods wife·hood

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

Wifehoods is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in wifehoods (defhioosw).

Definitions for wifehoods

noun

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

Origin of wifehoods

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

Examples for wifehoods

The eldest early assumed the burdens of wifehood and maternity.

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

What standard of womanhood and wifehood remained to such men?

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

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

Their ideal of wifehood and motherhood is fundamentally wrong.

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

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

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

She accepts the disadvantages of wifehood and foregoes the advantages.

Word Value for wifehoods
Scrable

18

Words with friends

17

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