Synonyms of girlhood

girlhood

noun

1

as in boyhood

Related Words

• boyhood
• childhood
• adolescence
• toddlerhood
• youth
• minority
• springtime
• infancy
• nonage
• babyhood
• immaturity
• juvenility
• juvenescence

Dissimilar Words

• adulthood
• majority
• winter
• midlife
• middle age
• sunset
• senectitude

2

as in maidenhood

Related Words

• maidenhood
• womanhood
• effeminacy
• femaleness
• girlishness
• femininity
• womanliness
• feminity
• effeteness
• womanishness
• muliebrity

Dissimilar Words

• manhood
• masculinity
• manliness
• virility
• boyishness
• androgyny
• tomboyishness
• mannishness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of girlhood

Now Carrie enters public school for the very first time, and with the reemergence of formidable telekinetic abilities, her blissful naivety of girlhood and her wide-open heart make her easy prey for physical and online bullies. — Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026

Growing up, pop culture’s representations of girlhood included a blonde Wakefield twin from Sweet Valley High, a post-makeover Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, and a big-breasted bombshell manufactured by some dorks with a Commodore 64. — Lisa Whittington-Hill, Longreads, 27 Aug. 2026

The global scope of this novelistic narrative reach only made my sense of my American girlhood more powerful. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Chester Dale, whose bequest forms the core of the NGA’s Cassatt holdings, favored the range of her female subjects, from girlhood and adolescence to adulthood and old age. — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026

Now, she's been immortalized with a Barbie doll and the pink energy of girlhood is headed for State Farm Arena. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

Fast makes no concessions to the male characters, committing fully to an appreciation of supportive girlhood, at the expense of the other gender. — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 July 2026

As can be found in the books, Laura Ingalls (played by Alice Halsey) and her older sister Mary (Skywalker Hughes) have very different ways of going about girlhood. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 June 2026

Stressful texts aside, Zortea turns to the group chat for the girlhood. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026