Definitions for sisterhoods

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sisterhoods sis·ter·hood

Spelling: [sis-ter-hoo d]

IPA: /ˈsɪs tərˌhʊd/

Sisterhoods is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 625 anagrams from letters in sisterhoods (dehioorssst).

Definitions for sisterhoods

noun

1. the state of being a sister.
2. a group of sisters, especially of nuns or of female members of a church.
3. an organization of women with a common interest, as for social, charitable, business, or political purposes.
4. congenial relationship or companionship among women; mutual female esteem, concern, support, etc.
5. Usually, the sisterhood. the community or network of women who participate in or support feminism.

Origin of sisterhoods

First recorded in 1350-1400, sisterhood is from the Middle English word sosterhode. See sister, -hood

Examples for sisterhoods

Excerpted from Mighty Be Our Powers: How sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee.

But we have not found any lack of money among the sisterhood.

They have banded themselves into a sisterhood, and christened our clergy-house a 'Settlement.'

But is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

Amy Siskind on how the most powerful woman in politics betrays the sisterhood.

They are now in essence a sisterhood joined together by a vile incident.

There is a little house close by the sisterhood where she and the boy could live.

Over dinner in Beverly Hills recently, the sisterhood was palpable.

"She never missed before," says a knitting-woman of the sisterhood.

And the negative reaction to it was surprising because it really seemed to prove your point about the lack of “sisterhood.”