Crossword-Solution: GIRLHOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Girlhood | n. | State or time of being a girl. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “GIRLHOOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Daughter's adolescence | 1 answer |
| Females' youthful time | 1 answer |
| Time in some lives | 1 answer |
| Time of proms, crushes and diaries. | 1 answer |
| state or time of being a girl | 1 answer |
| the childhood of a girl | 1 answer |
| juvenility | 33 answers |
| Growing pains. | 34 answers |
| Adolescence | 45 answers |
| Immaturity | 72 answers |
| Youth | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GIRLHOOD (5)
Girlhood has passed into womanhood; the bud is a bloom! Go, now—I feel lonelier than I did.” Phœbe took leave of the desolate couple, and passed through the shop, twinkling her eyelids to shake off a dew-drop; for—considering how brief her absence was to be, and therefore the folly of being cast down about it—she would not so far acknowledge her tears as to dry them with her handkerchief.
Thus accoutred, and walking with the confident tread of such a character, and with the supple freedom of a woman who had habitually walked in her girlhood, bare-foot and bare-legged, on the brown sea-sand, Madame Defarge took her way along the streets.
Millon since; she had heard quite enough of her before; and had known her idle and baddish ever since she was the worst little girl at school in Lumberville, and all through her shameful girlhood, and the married days which she had made so miserable to the poor fellow who had given her his decent name and a chance to behave herself.
Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky blue-grass country.
Miss Baker had chosen to invent the little fiction, had created the title and the unjust stepfather from some dim memories of the novels of her girlhood.
Quotes with GIRLHOOD (3)
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.
I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2017).