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

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

When they were painted, they were drenched in all the promise and privilege of a pampered girlhood. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

These joyous lines of song help kick off Netflix’s fresh new take on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic novels of pioneer girlhood, Little House on the Prairie. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

The idea was to reflect girlhood through different periods of American history, showing the changes and similarities in books and their accompanying dolls and historically accurate outfits. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 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

Beyond its tartness, its specificity, and the sensuous, elliptical line work of its prose, the book serves as a vinegary corrective to the novel of nostalgic country-house girlhood. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 10 June 2026

This is not fusion, but testament to the world as one big town, as perhaps only a third-culture kid — with Filipino and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a girlhood spent in the Deep South — would know. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026