Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)The state or condition of being a girl.

    девичествоdevičestvo

    the childhood of a girl

  2. (countable)The childhood of a girl.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Mary spent her girlhood in seclusion.

  2. We don't know much of Skura's girlhood in Algeria.

  3. Her standards for men are impossibly high, thanks to a girlhood rich in Disney, Cosmopolitan, and private school.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the state of being a girl:

Forms

plural: girlhoods
Singulargirlhood
Pluralgirlhoods

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgirl

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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