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Wiktionary

  1. -hoodsuffix

    A condition or state of being the thing or being in the role denoted by the word it is suffixed to, usually a noun.

    child - childhood

  2. -hoodsuffix

    A group sharing a specified condition or state.

  3. Etymology: From -had, from haiduz, via -hode (compare -head).

Webster Dictionary

  1. -hood

    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

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of -hood in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of -hood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of -hood in a Sentence

  1. Herbert Hovenkamp:

    It means the court is entitled to look under the hood, the district judge got it wrong by adopting a categorical rule that because the banks were cooperating in setting Libor they could not be violating antitrust rules.

  2. Donald Trump:

    Say whatever you want, he didn't report his bank loans... And then he acts like Robin Hood. Say whatever you want..

  3. Stephen Innes:

    There is nothing like an early start to the hurricane season to support oil prices, but looking under the hood of the EIA data, it paints an even rosier picture for U.S. oil markets, imports down, exports likely up and refinery utilization at yearly highs.

  4. Marion Gerald Hood:

    And when they gave him the honorary degree, I said to Marion Gerald Hood,' Gosh, he can come over here at my school and get an honorary degree, and I can't even put my foot on his campus,' and I didn't think that was quite right.

  5. Morris Chestnut:

    When I came up, I think really the only black male lead was Denzel Washington, right before we came out with' Boyz n the Hood,' Wesley Snipes was in' New Jack City.' But now I'm looking at everybody. There's Samuel Jackson, Denzel, Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan. There's a lot of people out there now.

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