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spinsterhoods

spinsterhoods is the plural of spinsterhood.

Meaning of spinsterhood

Noun

spinsterhood (countable and uncountable, plural spinsterhoods)

  1. The condition of being a spinster.
    • sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 387
  2. The time during which one is a spinster.

Questions about spinsterhoods

What is spinsterhoods the plural of?
Spinsterhoods is the plural of spinsterhood.

Words near spinsterhoods in the dictionary

  1. spinson
  2. spinsons
  3. spinster
  4. spinsterdom
  5. spinsterhood
  6. spinsterhoods
  7. spinsterial
  8. spinsterian
  9. spinsterish
  10. spinsterishly
  11. spinsterishness

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