sisterhood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The state, or kinship of being sisters.
The quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship; especially, the sense that women have of being in solidarity with one another.
A religious society of women.
The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

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sisterhood sisterhoods

From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).

sistership womanhood

brotherhood sorority sistren

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