Sisterhood

Noun

sisterhood (countable and uncountable, plural sisterhoods)

1. The state, or kinship of being sisters.
2. The quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship; especially, the sense that women have of being in solidarity with one another.
3. A religious society of women.
4. (feminism) The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

Noun

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling. synonym, antonym ▲hypernym ▼Synonym: (slang) sisAntonym: brother

My sister is always driving me crazy.

2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun. synonym, coordinate terms ▲Synonym: nunCoordinate terms: brother, friar, frater

Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.

3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. (Britain) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital. synonym ▲Synonym: charge nurse
5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism. quotations ▼

Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.

6. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman. quotations ▼
7. (informal) A form of address to a woman. synonyms ▲quotations ▼Synonyms: darling, dear, love, (US) lady, miss, (northern UK) pet

What’s up, sister?

8. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.

Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.

9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another. synonyms ▲Synonyms: affiliate, affiliated

sister publication

sister city

sister projects

10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.

sister ships

sister facility

Suffix

-hood

1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.child - childhood
2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.brother - brotherhoodneighbour - neighbourhood