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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sisterhood \Sis"ter*hood\, n. [Sister + hood.]
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The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.
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A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. ``A sisterhood of holy nuns.''
--Shak.The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood.
--Bryant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state, or kinship of being sisters 2 the quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship 3 a religious society of women
WordNet
n. the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings [syn: sistership]
a religious society of sisters (especially an order of nuns)
Wikipedia
Sisterhood may refer to:
- Sisterhood, an Orthodox religious society of women, such as the Jerusalem St. Elizabeth Sisterhood of Sisters of Mercy; see also brotherhood, bratstvo
- Sibling, sisters and brothers
- Sorority, a social organization for undergraduate students
- The Sisterhood, a short-lived English goth band
Sisterhood is a comedy feature film shot in London and Governors Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand and completed in 2008. It premiered in London's West End on 23 October 2008, followed by a theatrical release in the UK. It played in competition at the inaugural The Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles between 22–24 August.
The cast includes Nicholas Ball, Maria Charles, Rory McGregor, Graham McTavish, Isabelle Defaut, Emily Corcoran, Robert Faith and Jon Gadsby.
The film was directed by Richard Wellings-Thomas, written by Emily Corcoran and produced by Emily Corcoran, Tim Hart and A Sirokh.
Usage examples of "sisterhood".
John was ordained to the priesthood, and when John de Gronde, the first Confessor of the Sisters at Deventer died, he ruled the said Sisterhood which Gerard had founded, being set up as the second Rector thereof, in which office he was a zealous minister, and he governed the Sisters in most excellent wise for many years, for God helped him.
The Army and Sisterhood would march, but I hoped to go horseback at least as far as the Tambors, and perhaps even over the pass into Cayd.
Macurdy came home and found that the Sisterhood had abducted Varia, taking her from Farside as they called our world, to Yuulith.
Ennelina listened close, but later admitted she had heard some of it before rumours of my Bible were strong in the convents at which she lodged during her missions for the Beguine sisterhood.
Bible were strong in the convents at which she lodged during her missions for the Beguine sisterhood.
Sisterhood to put on a big campaign for a Chanukah gift for the temple, and he tells them that keeping Judaism in their hearts and a kosher home was more important for Jewish women than campaigning for gifts for the temple.
One or two of the people in the streets paused to stare at the blazing red head of the boy, and the slender, trousered, earringed young woman who rode at his side in the scarlet of the Sisterhood and the old-fashioned mountain-cut cloak of fur and homespun.
That may be especially true of the Pachomian Order because we are merely a centimeter above a lay sisterhood, no pun intended.
Coven-cum-ecological-action-group-cum-Ralfiecult-cum-what-may called the Sisterhood of Man who believed that it had all gone wrong when the Omphalos of logical positivism first violated the Sacred Womb of Life by leading the Monkey People out of the trees or inventing carnivoristic phallocratic capitalism, whichever came first.
Magda realize that Camilla had really said nothing about the Sisterhood, after all.
The ventilator fans forced the air to move in its accustomed direction, from the Eldest of the amaryllis sisterhood downdrift, and acquire messages in order of dominance within the hierarchy.
Safety dwells in her dominions, Health and Beauty with her move, And entwine their circling pinions In a sisterhood of love.
You know that the Renunciates were formed from two societies: the Sisterhood of the Sword, who were a soldier-caste, and the priestesses of Avarra, who were healers.
I have no love for secret societies and sisterhoods, and what I know, I reserve the right to tell as I choose, to whomever I choose.
And with all respect, I find it hard to believe that these rival sisterhoods, or whatever they are, will behave like some old legendary dictator or brainwashing expert and offer them a choice between death or dishonor.