spinsterhood

1. 1.

   the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)

   Broadermarital status

Other forms of spinsterhood

plural

spinsterhoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spinsterhood

What does spinsterhood mean?

spinsterhood means "the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)".

How many syllables are in spinsterhood?

spinsterhood has 3 syllables and divides as spin-ster-hood under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.