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Maidenhead vs Manhood - What's the difference?

maidenhead | manhood |

As a proper noun maidenhead

is a town in berkshire, england.

As a noun manhood is

the state of being man as a human being.

maidenhead

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Virginity.
  • * 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 363:
    • My lord, [...] / I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead .
  • (anatomy) The hymen.

    • Synonyms

    * (virginity) maidhood, maidenhood

    Related terms

    * maidenliness

    manhood

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being man as a human being.
    • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood .
  • State of being a man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
    • A strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood .
  • The qualities ascribed to manliness; courage; bravery; resolve.
  • The male genitalia.
    • She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood .
  • Men, considered as a group.

    • Synonyms

    * (human being) mankind, humanity

    See also

    * ("manhood" on Wikipedia)