Definitions
a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)
Word origin
From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).
Used in a sentence
“In contrast, she said, women join sisterhoods and do volunteer work for Jewish fundraising organizations that are run and dominated by men.”
“What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?”
“In a terrible way, I’ve never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Women’s bond”10 letters
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