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Definition: -HOOD

Part of Speech Definition
Expression 1. 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Extended Definition: -HOOD

-hood

-hood is an English suffix that means a "state or condition of" or a group sharing a certain characteristic. Examples include childhood and falsehood.

It is cognate with the German language suffix -heit, e.g. Kindheit.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "-hood". Image Credit.
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