1 [U] the state or time of being an adult man rather than a boy:
to reach manhood * His youth and early manhood were spent in America.
2 [U] the qualities that a man is supposed to have, for example courage, strength and sexual power:
Her new-found power was a threat to his manhood.
3 [sing.] (written or humorous) a man's PENIS. People use 'manhood' to avoid saying 'penis'.
4 [U] (literary) all the men of a country:
The nation's manhood died on the battlefields of World War I.
compareWOMANHOOD
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for manhood is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is manhood a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, manhood is tagged as noun.
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