Sisterhood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sisterhood \Sis"ter*hood\, n. [Sister + hood.]
     1. The state or relation of being a sister; the office or
        duty of a sister.
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              She . . . abhorr'd


              Her proper blood, and left to do the part
              Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.  --Daniel.
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     2. A society of sisters; a society of women united in one
        faith or order; sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of
        holy nuns." --Shak.
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              The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood.
                                                    --Bryant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sisterhood
       n 1: the kinship relation between a female offspring and the
            siblings [syn: {sistership}]
       2: a religious society of sisters (especially an order of nuns)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "sisterhood":
     affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood,
     blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherhood, brotherliness,
     brothership, chumship, club, cognation, colleagueship,
     common ancestry, common descent, community of interest,
     companionship, comradeship, confraternity, confrerie, connection,
     consanguinity, consortship, country club, cousinhood, cousinship,
     enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, fellowship, feminism,
     filiation, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternity, freemasonry,
     guild, kindred, kinship, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny,
     matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, order, paternity, patrilineage,
     patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation,
     relationship, rights of women, secret society, sibship,
     sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, sorority,
     ties of blood