单词	manhood
释义	manhoodman‧hood /ˈmænhʊd/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Many societies have a special ceremony when a boy has reached manhood. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Constance, in a few words, had insulted his dignity, his pride, his sense of exclusiveness, his manhood. He had spent the years of his young manhood in this city while I was still going to cheder. He was an active if conventional soldier and citizen; and from early manhood he wrote plays. In all its specific expressions, manhood is made, not born. Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood. What have I got to say to a man whose idea of manhood is the same old sexist patriarchy? What is the true meaning of manhood? Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► prove ... manhood  Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women? ► reach/attain manhood  He had barely reached manhood when he married. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► early · He was an active if conventional soldier and citizen; and from early manhood he wrote plays.· He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood.· Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s.· He was excommunicated in his early manhood from his synagogue on account of his unorthodox opinions. ► young · His adolescence and young manhood had occurred in a vacuum.· He had spent the years of his young manhood in this city while I was still going to cheder.· Grown to young manhood, Krishna killed his tyrant uncle and won universal renown.· Gandhi forgot his own youth and young manhood. VERB► grow · As he grew to manhood, Vologsky had accepted that state of being as both normal and even desirable.· As the boy grew to manhood he saw even more clearly than she the terrible situation.· He now had the neatly trimmed beard which his father expected his sons to adopt as they grew to manhood.· When I was a boy growing into manhood, I had a bedroom window all to myself and no female siblings.· Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s.· When Gregory grew into manhood, he separated from his family, then was ordained.· But when their two sons had grown to manhood Thebes was visited by a terrible plague.· When he reached it, the little son he had left there was grown to manhood. ► prove · A story was even current to prove his manhood he had killed and castrated a boy belonging to the palace. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the first flush of youth/manhood Now aged 31, Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth. Word family WORD FAMILYnounmanmanhoodmankindadjectivemanly ≠ unmanlymanned ≠ unmannedmannishverbmanadverbmanfully 1[uncountable] qualities such as strength, courage, and sexual power, that people think a man should have:  Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women?2[uncountable] the state of being a man and no longer a boy → womanhoodreach/attain manhood He had barely reached manhood when he married.3[uncountable] literary all the men of a particular nation:  America’s manhood4[singular] especially literary a penis
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