sisterhoodnoun
uk/ˈsɪs.tə.hʊd/us/ˈsɪs.tɚ.hʊd/[ U ] a strong feeling of friendship and support among women who are involved in action to improve women's rights
[ U ] the relationship between sisters:
It was sisterhood that made her care for me as she did.
[ C, + sing/pl verb ] a society of women living a religious life
the sisterhood [ + sing/pl verb ]
women involved in action to improve women's rights
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Human rights
- affirmative action
- ageism
- agism
- Amnesty International
- anti-racist
- Bechdel test
- discrimination
- emancipation
- equal opportunity
- equality
- fattist
- gay liberation
- gay rights
- gender discrimination
- human rights
- inequality
- sister under the skin idiom
- suffragette
- women's libber
- women's liberation
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