Sisterhood

n.	1.	The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. - Daniel.
	2.	A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively. The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood. - Bryant.

Noun	1.	sisterhood - the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings Synonyms: sistership
	2.	sisterhood - a religious society of sisters (especially an order of nuns)

affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherhood, brotherliness, brothership, chumship, club, cognation, colleagueship, common ancestry, common descent, community of interest, companionship, comradeship, confraternity, confrerie, connection, consanguinity, consortship, country club, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, fellowship, feminism, filiation, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternity, freemasonry, guild, kindred, kinship, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, order, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, rights of women, secret society, sibship, sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, sorority, ties of blood

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