• Elderhood

    Origin

    From elder + -hood.

    Full definition of elderhood

    Noun

    elderhood

    (uncountable)
    1. The state, quality, or condition of being an elder.
      • 2004, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Encylopedia of Medical Anthropology:A notion of elderhood appears to exist in most non-Western societies and is largely based on combining social and functional definitions of one's place in the life cycle.
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