spinsterhood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

spinster +‎ -hood

Noun[edit]

spinsterhood (countable and uncountable, plural spinsterhoods)

  1. 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
  2. The time during which one is a spinster.

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