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MAIDENHOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maidenhood mean?
• MAIDENHOOD (noun)
The noun MAIDENHOOD has 1 sense:
1. the childhood of a girl
Familiarity information: MAIDENHOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The childhood of a girl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
girlhood; maidenhood; maidhood
Hypernyms ("maidenhood" is a kind of...):
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
Derivation:
maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))
Context examples
Ruth was blushing, but it was the blush of maidenhood called upon for the first time to discuss the sacred things of life with a mother held equally sacred.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was the first time she had heard an oath from the lips of a man she knew, and she was shocked, not merely as a matter of principle and training, but shocked in spirit by this rough blast of life in the garden of her sheltered maidenhood.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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