spinsterhood
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
spinsterhood (countable and uncountable, plural spinsterhoods)
- The condition of being a spinster.
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 387:
- sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood
- The time during which one is a spinster.
Translations[edit]
condition of a spinster
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