-hood
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| Suffixes |
| -archy |
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| -cide |
| -cracy |
| -cycle |
| -gate |
| -hood |
| -ic |
| -illion |
| -ism |
| -ist |
| -kinesis |
| -mania |
| -nik |
| -graphy |
| -oid |
| -logy |
| -ome |
| -omics |
| -nomy |
| -onym |
| -ous |
| -phil- |
| -phob- |
| -phone |
| polis |
| -scope |
| -stan |
| Ville |
| -ware |
Disambiguation: "-hood" may also be short for neighbourhood
-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.
Examples
- Adulthood
- Brotherhood
- Buddhahood
- Childhood
- Falsehood
- Fatherhood
- Godhood
- Knighthood
- Likelihood
- Manhood
- Monkshood
- Motherhood
- Neighbourhood
- Parenthood
- Personhood
- Priesthood
- Sainthood
- Sisterhood
- Statehood
- Strangerhood
- Womanhood
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