womanly
womanly is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
- 2.In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman. Gascoigne. WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Woman's Christian Temperance Union. An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- adolescent
- adult
- adultness
- age
- assume
- attain
- chicken
- come
- cut
- discretion
- estate
- flower
- full
- grown
- have
- life
- majority
- man
- manhood
- manly
- marriageable
- matronly
- mature
- maturity
- meridian
- middle-aged
- mild
- nubile
- out
- prime
- pubescence
- pubescent
- ripe
- sown
- spring
- teens
- the
- toga
- virile
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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