sisterhood
Americannoun
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sisterhoods
plural
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the state of being a sister.
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a group of sisters, especially of nuns or of female members of a church.
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an organization of women with a common interest, as for social, charitable, business, or political purposes.
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congenial relationship or companionship among women; mutual female esteem, concern, support, etc.
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Usually the sisterhood. the community or network of women who participate in or support feminism.
noun
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the state of being related as a sister or sisters
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a religious body or society of sisters, esp a community, order, or congregation of nuns
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the bond between women who support the Women's Movement
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sisterhood
First recorded in 1350–1400, sisterhood is from the Middle English word sosterhode. See sister, -hood
Example Sentences
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“Practical Magic” is a story of family and sisterhood, of the bonds that we make and the ones that we break.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The gags are counterbalanced by generous helpings of schmaltz, with much talk of the power of the feminine and how sisterhood defeats all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
For Andrea’s 40th birthday earlier this year, I repaid the favor and requested a video for her from Nell Campbell, who portrayed Columbia, in which she talked about sisterhood — and “Rocky Horror,” of course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"We wanted to talk about how this sisterhood helped us become resilient, so that we're able to dream and to run again."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
While I’m brushing my teeth, I think about how our sisterhood deteriorated.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
In Los Angeles, Molina became a bridge between the separated sisterhoods of the Westside, South L.A. and the Eastside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2023
One of the oldest Black sisterhoods, the Sisters of the Holy Family, formed in New Orleans in 1842 because white sisterhoods in Louisiana, including the slave-holding Ursuline order, refused to accept African Americans.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2022
It’s also a defining factor in the crime stories “The Kitchen” and “Hustlers,” where women form uneasy, contingent sisterhoods as a bulwark against male power and as a way to provide for their families.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
Until I took my nosebleed seat in the theater, and ended up thinking about power, and femininity, and ya-ya sisterhoods up the wazoo, and feeling oddly moved.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018
Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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