sisterhood
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈsɪstərˌhʊd/
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hermandad
- Many women find empowerment and friendship through sisterhood as they gather for shared goals and interests.
- sisterhood of the Temple
- sisterhood of wounded women
Like the last few years have been such a privilege because sisterhood is transformative.
- Like the last few years have been such a privilege because sisterhood is transformative.
- It was a painful and emotional time, but it was a time that I remember as pure sisterhood.
- But it's also possible with let's say like in our place as a community, a brother and sisterhood from different families.
- If anybody else out there also has Hotmail still welcome welcome to the sisterhood or the brotherhood, whatever we are hood.
- Only then can you world of true sisterhood arise and we can share a tomorrow of love and peace.
- And I think maybe it will take somebody or some group of people to, you know, to kind of modulate the message that comes out of the sisterhood.
Examples
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Yet her chador and genuine feeling of sisterhood with the women she meets along the way transform her interactions with them.
Academic text (2010) -
Welcome to the sisterhood!
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I mean, I am just so happy to be in a sisterhood with you guys.
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Give them a purpose, a sisterhood and a way of life.
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The power of our sisterhood.
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And it was there that many of us discovered the strength of sisterhood.
Academic text (2018) -
And for the seven names I will read, their lives are about to change forever as they are initiated into a sisterhood like no other.
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I was also a member of the sisterhood, though I left it many years ago to come to Hong Kong.
Fiction book (2000) -
In fact, we upgrade our friendship to a bond of sisterhood, which has its own codes.
Fiction book (1996) -
Like the last few years have been such a privilege because sisterhood is transformative.
Synonyms
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3.3
A feeling of close support and loyalty between people
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9.9
Women who support each other and share common goals
A group of women who meet to support each other or share a common interest
Antonyms
How United
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sisterhood comes from sister plus the ending -hood, which once meant 'group' or 'state', just like in brotherhood. So a sisterhood is a community of women who share interests and support each other.