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girlhood

[ US /ˈɡɝɫˌhʊd/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɜːlhʊd/ ]
NOUN
  1. the childhood of a girl

How To Use girlhood In A Sentence

  • The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
  • With paper, photographs, scissors, glue and ink, she recorded and perhaps resolved her passage from girlhood to womanhood.
  • As she traces her own journey from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta, she evokes the intimate experiences of food and ritual that structure women's everyday life in Bengal.
  • She had shared responsibility for her brother since girlhood.
  • A god-daughter told me of how jolly he made her girlhood, although her father worried about his fellow barrister's habit of fast driving.
  • Her father's emphasis on 'soundly' declared an approval of the deed, and she was chilled by a sickening abhorrence and dread of the cruel brute in men, such as, awakened by she knew not what, had haunted her for a year of her girlhood. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
  • We have the story of a life here, from girlhood in New Zealand (and the cultural delights of Christchurch) to the passage to Britain after her mother received an unexpectedly large legacy.
  • Years of hard living had blurred but not erased her girlhood beauty.
  • For several years during her girlhood, Bess was a tomboy in a house full of brothers.
  • But from girlhood onwards, it has always been a prop.
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