'Sisterhood' definitions:
Definition of 'sisterhood'
(from WordNet)
noun
The kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings [syn: sisterhood, sistership]
noun
An association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest [syn: sisterhood, sistership]
noun
A religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)
Definition of 'Sisterhood'
From: GCIDE
- Sisterhood \Sis"ter*hood\, n. [Sister + hood.]
- 1. The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. [1913 Webster]
- She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of holy nuns." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sisterhood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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