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SISTERHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("sisterhood" is a kind of...):
religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)
Meronyms (members of "sisterhood"):
Sister ((Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address))
Beguine ((Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life)
Derivation:
Sister ((Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest
Synonyms:
sisterhood; sistership
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("sisterhood" is a kind of...):
association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings
Synonyms:
sisterhood; sistership
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("sisterhood" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
Derivation:
sister (a female person who has the same parents as another person)
