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Definition: Sisterhood |
SisterhoodNoun1. The kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings. 2. A religious society of sisters (especially an order of nuns). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sisterhood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Sisterhood \Sis"ter*hood\, noun. [Sister hood.]. (references) |
Synonym: SisterhoodSynonym: sistership (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consanguinity | Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
Party | Community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sisterhood |
| English words defined with "sisterhood": Beguine ♦ Sisters of Charity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sisterhood": Beguins ♦ Cross ♦ Shrieking Sisterhood. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know, sisterhood is powerful (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Women are the wave of the future, and sisterhood is stronger than anything (The New Original Wonder Woman; writing credit: William M. Marston; Stanley Ralph Ross) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Helpful Sisterhood (1914) The Sisterhood (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sisterhood feels good. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Virgilvirgil [publius Virgilius | And no less happy he who knows the rural gods -- Pan, and old Sylvanus, and the sisterhood of Nymphs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sisterhood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.22% of the time. "Sisterhood" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.22% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (common) | 2.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sisterhood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lidhje e afërt motrave. (various references) | |
Arabic | تجمع نساء ديني, جماعة من الأخوات, الأختية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сестринство, сестрински отношения. (various references) | |
Chinese | 妇女团". (various references) | |
Czech | sesterstvo (sorority). (various references) | |
Farsi | خواهری (Sorority), انجمن خیریه مذهبی نسوان . (various references) | |
Finnish | sisaruus. (various references) | |
French | solidarité féminine, communauté religieuse des femmes, communauté des femmes. (various references) | |
German | Schwesternschaft (nursing staff, sorority). (various references) | |
Greek | αδελφότησ (fellow ship, fraternity, sodality), αδελφότητα (brotherhood, fellow ship, fellowship, fraternity, sodality). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אחיות (sisterliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | apácarend. (various references) | |
Italian | sorellanza, congregazione di suore. (various references) | |
Korean | 자매간의 . (various references) | |
Manx | shuyrys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isterhoodsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | irmandade (brotherhood, fraternity, sodality), confraria (brotherhood, fraternity, friary, sodality). (various references) | |
Russian | сестринское отношение, родственная связь сестер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sestrinstvo, ženska sekcija. (various references) | |
Spanish | hermandad (brotherhood, craftiness, fraternity). (various references) | |
Swedish | systerskap, systerförbund. (various references) | |
Thai | ความเป็นพี่หรือน้องสาว. (various references) | |
Turkish | rahibeler topluluğu, kardeşlik (brotherhood, fraternal, fraternity, sorority), kızkardeşlik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сестринськи стосунки. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sisterhood": sisterhoods. (additional references) | |
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"Sisterhood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sisterhook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sisterhood" (pronounced si"sterhuhd) |
| 3 | -h uh d | priesthood. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: dhooties, disroots, hidroses, hoisters, hoodiest, horsiest, orthoses, orthosis, osteoids, reshoots, sheroots, shooters, shorties, soothers, steroids. | |
-3 letters: dehorts, dhootie, dhootis, disroot, dissert, dithers, dossier, editors, heriots, hoisted, hoister, hoodier, hoodies, hooters, hootier, horstes, hosiers, hotrods, isodose, oroides, osteoid, reshoot, roosted, rosiest, sheroot, shooter, shorted, shortie, soothed, soother, soothes, sootier, sorites, sortied, sorties, steroid. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: priesthoods, sisterhoods. | |
+2 letters: orthopedists, spinsterhood. | |
+3 letters: apostrophised, spinsterhoods. | |
+4 letters: moderatorships, rhodochrosites, roadworthiness. | |
+5 letters: geohydrologists, hydrocortisones, photoperiodisms, trisoctahedrons. | |
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