sisterhood

SEE DEFINITION OF sisterhood

nounbond

Synonyms for sisterhood

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Antonyms for sisterhood

brotherhood

feminism

noun. women's rights

feminist movement
sisterhood
womanism
women's lib
women's liberation
women's movement

Word Origin & History

"state of being a sister," late 14c., from sister + -hood. Meaning "a society of sisters" (usually a religious order) is from 1590s; sense of "women having some common characteristic or calling" is from c.1600.

Example Sentences forsisterhood

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

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

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.

But self-denial is one of the first lessons learnt in our Sisterhood.

The Sisterhood is open day and night to all the poor who are in need of help of any kind.

Savannah suffered least of the fair Atlantic sisterhood, from the blockade.

A sister may, for instance, withdraw220/216 from the sisterhood for proper cause.

Not 'the cup of brotherhood' but 'the sausage of sisterhood'!

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