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sisterhood
[sis-ter-hood] 
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sisterhood
[sis-ter-hood]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bond |
| Synonyms: | friendship, sisterly, sodality, sorority, unity |
| Antonyms: | brotherhood |
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| Main Entry: | fraternity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brotherhood |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, camaraderie, club, fellowship, frat, guild, house, kinship, order, sisterhood, society, sorority |
| Antonyms: | sisterhood, sorority |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization |
| Synonyms: | association, brotherhood, club, community, company, fraternity, guild, league, lodge, sect, sisterhood, society, sodality, sorority, union |
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel, chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, consociation, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest, joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, tie-up, togetherness, union |
| Main Entry: | union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with shared interest, cause |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, confederation, congress, employees, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union |
| Antonyms: | management |
| Main Entry: | feminism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | women's rights |
| Synonyms: | feminist movement, sisterhood, womanism, women's lib, women's liberation, women's movement |
| Main Entry: | women's liberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement for equal rights for women |
| Synonyms: | equal rights, feminism, rights of women, sisterhood, womanism, women's lib, women's liberation movement, women's movement, women's rights movement, women's studies, women's suffrage |
| Main Entry: | confederation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | union |
| Synonyms: | alliance, association, bloc, brotherhood, cartel, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, partnership, sisterhood, society, sorority, syndicate |
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| Concept: | [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS |
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-nouns
consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage (paternity); filiation, affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism., kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood., family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood., race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.
-verbs
be related to, claim relationship with.
-adjectives
related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal., intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german.
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