Definitions for statehood

statehood state·hood

Spelling: [steyt-hoo d]
IPA: /ˈsteɪt hʊd/

Statehood is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in statehood (adehoostt).

Definitions for statehood

noun

  1. the status or condition of being a state, especially a state of the U.S.

Origin of statehood

An Americanism dating back to 1865-70; state + -hood

Examples for statehood

There were those who labored, no doubt, with sinister motives for statehood.

They had grown to statehood within it, and they had no memories outside it.

Since statehood, its vote has gone to a Democratic presidential candidate just once—and that was to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

Even before the fighting started, Barzani asked his regional parliament to begin work on a referendum on statehood.

In June 2009, in a speech at Bar-Ilan University, Netanyahu endorsed Palestinian statehood after a career spent opposing it.

Can we do better than to accept and restore them to the full privileges of statehood?

There is no doubt that statehood itself is independent of recognition.

More than 10 million Kurds live in Iran and Tehran fears Iraqi Kurdish statehood will encourage unrest among their own Kurds.

The contest culminated in the campaign for statehood in 1818.

Every move that might appear to encourage Palestinian statehood, beginning with the prisoner release, improves his position.

Word Value for statehood
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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