Word.ws English Dictionary

-hoods

-hoods is the plural of -hood.

Meaning of -hood

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

Questions about -hoods

What is -hoods the plural of?
-hoods is the plural of -hood.

Words near -hoods in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -hoods (page history and authors); -hood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “-hoods.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/-hoods. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.