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noun, feminine

ménopause

/me.nɔ.poz/

noun, feminine/me.nɔ.poz/plural: ménopauses

menopause (period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether)

Related: ménopausé

From méno- + -pause, coined by French physician Charles de Gardanne in 1821.