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familyhood

familyhood noun: the state of being a family.

Noun

familyhood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a family.
    • Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life.1896, John Patterson Coyle, The Imperial Christ, page 93
    • All you can do as a friend or a loved one or anyone in our brotherhood or our familyhood that we have here in the Lakers organisation is to put an arm around someone when they need it.2021 January 27, AFP, “Fans remember Kobe Bryant 1 year after deadly crash”, in The South African, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021

Origin of familyhood

From family + -hood.

Questions about familyhood

What does familyhood mean?
Familyhood means the state of being a family.
What part of speech is familyhood?
Familyhood is a noun.

Words near familyhood in the dictionary

  1. family-style
  2. family-valuer
  3. family-valuers
  4. familygram
  5. familygrams
  6. familyhood
  7. familying
  8. familyish
  9. familyism
  10. familyist
  11. familyists

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