spinsterhood
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editspinsterhood (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
editcondition of a spinster
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