Sisterhood
['sɪstəhʊd] or ['sɪstɚhʊd]
Definition
(noun.) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns).
(noun.) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest.
(noun.) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings.
Edited by Augustus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
(n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She never missed before, says a knitting-woman of the sisterhood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- One of her sisterhood knitted beside her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Other letters were written for me by my valued fellow-workers, the sisterhood at the Mothers'-Small-Clothes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It shall never dishonour me; it shall never dishonour my sisterhood in me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Sumner