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-hood

/hʊd/

-hood suffix: a substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.

Suffix

-hood (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -hoods)

  1. A substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
    • child + -hood → childhood
  2. A substantive suffix denoting a group sharing a specified condition or state.
    • brother + -hood → brotherhood
    • neighbour + -hood → neighbourhood

-hood meaning in Vietnamese

-hood in Vietnamese

condition or state
thời, tuổi

Synonyms of -hood

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Forms of -hood

plural-hoods

Origin of -hood

From Middle English -hode, from Old English -hād, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.

Words that rhyme with -hood

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Questions about -hood

What does -hood mean?
-hood means a substantive suffix denoting a condition or state of being.
What is -hood in Vietnamese?
-hood in Vietnamese is thời, tuổi. See -hood meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is -hood?
-hood is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -hood?
-hood is pronounced /hʊd/.

Words near -hood in the dictionary

  1. -henge
  2. -hod
  3. -holic
  4. -holism
  5. -hon
  6. -hood
  7. -hoods
  8. -hour-old
  9. -hub
  10. -hyal
  11. -i

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