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Definition of -hood suffix from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

-hood

suffix

/hʊd/

/hʊd/

in nouns

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the state or quality of
- childhood
- falsehood
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a group of people of the type mentioned
- the priesthood
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Word OriginOld English -hād, originally an independent noun meaning ‘person, condition, quality’.

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