GIRLHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does girlhood mean? 

• GIRLHOOD (noun)
  The noun GIRLHOOD has 1 sense:

1. the childhood of a girl

  Familiarity information: GIRLHOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIRLHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The childhood of a girl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

girlhood; maidenhood; maidhood

Hypernyms ("girlhood" is a kind of...):

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)

Derivation:

girl (a youthful female person)

girl (a young female)

 Context examples 

Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owners name, and each filled with relics of the childhood and girlhood ended now for all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From Louisville. Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white—

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)