different between motherhood vs wifehood

English

Etymology

From Middle English moderhode, moderhede, equivalent to mother +? -hood.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?ð?h?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?ð??h?d/, /?m?-/
• Hyphenation: mo?ther?hood

Noun

motherhood (countable and uncountable, plural motherhoods)

1. The state of being a mother.
2. Mothers, considered as a group.

Synonyms

• mommyhood
• momhood
• mumhood

Coordinate terms

• fatherhood
• parenthood
• siblinghood

Derived terms

• flag, motherhood and apple pie, motherhood and apple pie
• motherhood statement

Translations

Further reading

• motherhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• wivehood

Etymology

From Middle English wifhode, wifhod, wifhede, from Old English w?fh?d (“femininity; the female sex”), equivalent to wife +? -hood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??fh?d/

Noun

wifehood (usually uncountable, plural wifehoods)

1. The quality or state of being a wife.
2. The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].

Related terms

• motherhood