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ladyhood

ladyhood noun: the quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.

Noun

ladyhood (uncountable)

  1. the quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
    • If you were, you would have no carriages to ride in, and your daughters would be what Martha and Mary and Lydia and Dorcas were, and their title to ladyhood founded on their degrees of goodness." "1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.
    • I saw myself in the full flower of young ladyhood, carrying at my side an awkward lad of a dozen years, attired in knickerbockers, and probably chewing a taffy stick, yet "wooing and loving as never man loved before."1904, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, A Woman of the World

Forms of ladyhood

alternative formladihood

Origin of ladyhood

From lady + -hood.

Questions about ladyhood

What does ladyhood mean?
Ladyhood means the quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
What part of speech is ladyhood?
Ladyhood is a noun.

Words near ladyhood in the dictionary

  1. ladyfolks
  2. ladyfriend
  3. ladyfriends
  4. ladyfy
  5. ladyfying
  6. ladyhood
  7. ladying
  8. ladyish
  9. ladyism
  10. ladyisms
  11. ladykiller

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