manhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> obsolete English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Dutch manheit (“manhood”), Middle Low German manheit (whence German Low German Mannheit (“manhood”)), German Mannheit (“manhood”).
Base: man
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: manhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manhead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being a human being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.
Thou seemest human and divine,
⁠The highest, holiest manhood, thou.
gloss: The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
The Caves of Ajanta, the medieval Courts of Love, the epithalamia of the erotic poets [...] all testify to the glorification of manhood, the supremacy of the sex motif.
gloss: All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (exclusively and universally: only synonymous in cases for which women are excluded, and when the meaning of manhood is universal or worldwide)
During the Second World War, Russia lost a great percentage of its young manhood, giving rise to a great wave of widowhood in the country.
[…] it was not until the year 1870, after the republic had been completely drained of its manhood and resources, that the long war was terminated by the capture and death of Lopez […]
But he thanked them all the same for the good example they had shown the county and the country, that in time of trouble, in time of difficulty, and in time of doubt, the manhood of this district and of the surrounding district, and the manhood of Clan Desmond should show their faith in the old grand ideals of a free and united Ireland (cheers).
But nosin’ down the roadway past the bones of other wrecks / Goes the doughty little gunboat with her manhood on her decks!
The greatest product of any country is her manhood. What if she can boast of coffers bursting with gold, when she raises men with earthen hearts?
Her (the American South's) soil was drenched with blood; the very flower of her manhood was martyred; her women and children were made to suffer in the extreme; her property was destroyed by forced emancipation, by the devastation of war, […]
Long focused on its Soviet adversary, America seemed barely to notice the manhood of Islam. Training, dedication, religious zeal, planning, even where purity might falter, would correct all that. Islam needed young men, skilled, willing to die. The United States would be reduced.
gloss: The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My goodness, James certainly is a prime example of manhood, isn't he?
Traditionally, men sought to enhance the manhood of their young sons, so that they would become manly men, but in general, men no longer do so.
"And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
gloss: The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The failure of William's business seems to have been quite damaging to his manhood.
I feel that when you boss me around, you insult my manhood.
It was a racking experience, and he did not repeat it. The muscular cramps which are characteristic of the complaint were tying the sufferer into knots, and he was biting his lips to shut down the screams which might have relieved his agony at the expense of his manhood.
gloss: The male genitalia, especially the penis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.
In the course of a journey the Rabbis [...] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.
A Thai man was taken to hospital to have a sex toy removed with bolt cutters after it got stuck on his penis. He was using the device at home but was left in agony when he could not detach it from his manhood.
Awkward or repetitive prose presented another pitfall. Left to their own devices, chatbots will default to odd or euphemistic phrasing, Ms. Hart said, noting that an A.I. program had recently written “his turgid manhood” to describe a character’s erection.
Related words: boyhood
girlhood
childhood
Derived words: manhood suffrage
supermanhood
Translations:
lang: Bengali
word: মরদামি
roman: mordami
lang: Bulgarian
word: мъжественост
roman: mǎžestvenost
lang: Czech
word: mužnost
lang: Finnish
word: miehekkyys
lang: French
word: masculinité
lang: French
word: virilité
lang: Galician
word: masculinidade
lang: Georgian
word: კაცურობა
roman: ḳacuroba
lang: Georgian
word: მამაკაცურობა
roman: mamaḳacuroba
lang: Greek
word: ανδρισμός
roman: andrismós
lang: Greek
word: αρρενωπότητα
roman: arrenopótita
lang: Hebrew
word: גַּבְרִיּוּת
roman: gavriyút
lang: Macedonian
word: маже́ственост
roman: mažéstvenost
lang: Russian
word: му́жественность
roman: múžestvennostʹ
lang: Russian
word: му́жество
roman: múžestvo
lang: Slovak
word: mužnosť
lang: Spanish
word: virilidad
lang: Spanish
word: masculinidad
lang: Turkish
word: erkeklik
lang: Zulu
word: ubudoda