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-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
-hoodsuffix
A group sharing a specified condition or state.
Etymology: From -had, from haiduz, via -hode (compare -head).
Webster Dictionary
-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
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of -hood in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of -hood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of -hood in a Sentence
As a government we don't depend on him, not the government nor the population, sure, there's a chain (of people) who depend on his businesses, but he's no Robin Hood.
There was nothing' hood' about him, he was a good kid and I don’t have him no more.
He got on the hood! Where’s he going from the hood! I didn’t understand what he was going to do, [He kept yelling] ‘Why are your windows so dark.’.
Its hood was up, and Edward, our driver, couldn't do anything but slow down and try to go around it, but being the gentleman farmer that he was, he started to offer help. And as quick as his words were coming out, they jumped on the bus with their guns pointed at us. And the rifle. And told Edward to go to the back of the bus.
It looked like someone was thrown down on the top of the hood – arms spread out and then dragged back almost like off the hood to the point where you can almost see fingers scribbling down the hood.
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