peoplehood
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈpipəlˌhʊd/
- Jargon
:
identidad colectiva
- Cultural festivals play an important role in fostering a sense of peoplehood among diverse groups.
- sense of peoplehood
- ethnic peoplehood
- Jewish peoplehood
Examples
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In succeeding decades, other versions of peoplehood offered the immigrants alternative self-concepts and collective representations.
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In response, other letter-writers expressed more clearly the peoplehood message that underlay MWC official statements.
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Thus, each immigrant group could contribute its own special qualities to this peoplehood; indeed, it had a duty to do so.
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Of course, such striving by individuals toward a sense of ethnic peoplehood takes place within the constraints of history and social structure.
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Leadership, degree of institutional completeness, cultural particularity, and the power of the idea of peoplehood all played a role.
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Catholic faith is a force of liberation that gives the Filipino a sense of rootedness, identity, and peoplehood.
Academic text (2006) -
More often, the process was fraught with internal conflicts and dissension over the nature, history, and destiny of its peoplehood.
Academic text (1992) -
America, they argued, may already be a political state, but its nationhood—its peoplehood—was yet unfinished.
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Abu-Lughod, therefore, laid the groundwork for a new perception of the Palestine question, a view that recognized the peoplehood and nationhood of the Palestinians, instead of the Zionist and Israeli versions of the Palestinian narrative.
Academic text (2004) -
The shared traditions and values of the community strengthened its sense of peoplehood.
Synonyms
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3.2
Feeling that you belong and are close to other people in a group
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6.6
A group of people who act together for a shared purpose
Antonyms
How United
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word peoplehood is made from people and the old ending -hood, which means 'state' or 'condition' and is in words like childhood. So, peoplehood means 'the state of being a people' — the shared identity or culture of a group.