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singlehood

[sing-guhl-hood]

noun

  1. the status of being unmarried.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of singlehood1

First recorded in 1830–40; single + -hood
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Example Sentences

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Those are the things 27-year-old Tori Mattei in New York has discovered on her own over the last four years of singlehood.

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Rebecca Traister: There have been all kinds of panics over marriage and singlehood in the United States.

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Nobody in the current cohort, however, has leveraged singlehood more effectively than Mr. Modi, said Neerja Chowdhury, a political commentator and editor.

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In a country that's often described as being "obsessed with marriage", a lot of stigma still surrounds singlehood.

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But, Ms Kundu says, she's seeing "many more women now who are single by choice, not just by circumstances" and it's this "changing face of singlehood" that's important to acknowledge.

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