womanhood

英 [ˈwʊmənhʊd]

美 [ˈwʊmənhʊd]

n.  成年女子的状态; (统称)妇女

BNC.20028 / COCA.16162

牛津词典

noun

• 成年女子的状态
  the state of being a woman, rather than a girl
  1. He watched his daughters grow to womanhood.
     他看着自己的女儿们都长大成人了。
• （统称）妇女
  women in general
  1. the womanhood of this country
     这个国家的妇女

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 女人;成年女性;女子成年期
  Womanhoodis the state of being a woman rather than a girl, or the period of a woman's adult life.
  1. Here she is on the threshold of womanhood...
     现在她将迈入成年期。
  2. Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
     女人怀孕是天经地义的事。
• N-UNCOUNT (泛指)女性；(某个国家或群体的)妇女
  You can refer to women in general or the women of a particular country or community aswomanhood.
  1. She symbolised for me the best of Indian womanhood.
     在我看来，她代表着最优秀的印度女性。
  2. ...the changing condition of womanhood in the closing decades of this century.
     本世纪最后几十年中妇女境况的不断变化

英英释义

noun

• the status of a woman
• women as a class
  1. it's an insult to American womanhood
  2. woman is the glory of creation
  3. the fair sex gathered on the veranda
  Synonym:womanfair sex
• the state of being an adult woman
  Synonym:muliebrity

双语例句

• This is more a celebration of your womanhood.
  这种舞不仅仅是对你的女性特质的一种赞美。
• Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
  有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢？
• His remarks are an insult to womanhood.
  他的话是对女性的侮辱。
• She was a little girl when I left home; now she buds into womanhood.
  当我离开家的时候她本是个小女孩；现在她亭亭玉立成了女人家了。
• She grew into womanhood without ever knowing her father.
  她一直到成年都不知道自己的父亲是谁。
• May has grown to womanhood.
  梅已是成年女人了。
• Problems of Southern Womanhood in Faulkner's Two Major Novels
  福克纳两部主要小说中的南方妇女问题
• When you had grown to womanhood, you were to be mine.
  当你长大成人，就会成为我的女人。
• Why do you reduce womanhood to high hills and lipstick colors?
  为什么口红的颜色会减少女人味？
• On close examination of the texts, however, these deceptively simple stereotypes of American womanhood do not hold.
  其实，这些虚构的简单的美国妇女形象是不存在的。