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Webster 1913 Edition
-hood
-hood
.[OE.
hod
, had
, hed
, hede
, etc., person, rank, order, condition, AS. hād
; akin to OS. hēd
, OHG. heit
, G. -heit
, D. -heid
, Goth. haidus
manner; cf. Skr. kētu
brightness, cit
to appear, be noticeable, notice. √217. Cf. -head
.] A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
Definition 2024
-hood
-hood
English
Suffix
-hood
- A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
- child - childhood
- A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.
- brother - brotherhood
- neighbor - neighborhood
Synonyms
- -head (obsolete)
- -ness
- -ship
- -itas
- -itude
- -th
- -ia
- -itia
- -ity
- -ability
- -ibility
- -icity
- -osity
- -ous
- -ose
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-hood'>English words suffixed with -hood</a>
Related terms
other terms ending in -hood
Translations
condition or state
group