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How to pronounce girlhood in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms maidenhood, maidhood
Type of childhood
Derivation girl

Examples of girlhood

girlhood
Over lunch, she recalls a girlhood of school day rituals and dude-ranch getaways.
From the latimes.com
Giorgia Boscolo dreamed of following in her father's gondola wake since girlhood.
From the latimes.com
The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white.
From the time.com
It might be an overstatement to say that the Girl Scouts shaped American girlhood.
From the washingtonpost.com
I spent many of my girlhood years going to scout meetings and resident camp.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
In her old age Edith Sitwell told a sad, comical story about her girlhood ambitions.
From the guardian.co.uk
Franklin has been a Sam Cooke fan since her girlhood growing up in Detroit.
From the freep.com
Marriage-even though it be with the love of my girlhood-is still half-terrible to me.
From the gutenberg.org
The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains on its original site.
From the time.com
More examples
  • The childhood of a girl
  • A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.