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-hood

a native English suffix denoting state, condition, character, nature, etc., or a body of persons of a particular character or class, formerly used in the formation of nouns: childhood; likelihood; knighthood; priesthood.

Origin:
ME -hode, -hod, OE -hād (c. G -heit), special use of hād condition, state, order, quality, rank

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Language Translation for : -hood

Spanish:

capucha,

German:

die Kapuze,

Japanese:

ずきん

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-hood
suff.

1. Condition; state; quality: manhood.
2. An instance of a specified state or quality: falsehood.
A group sharing a specified state or quality: sisterhood.

[Middle English -hed, -hode, from Old English *-hǣdu, -hād.]

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-hood

"state or condition of being," from O.E. -had "condition, position," cognate with Ger. -heit, Du. -heid, all from P.Gmc. *khaidus. Originally a free-standing word, cf. O.E. hed "position, dignity," O.N. heiðr "honor, dignity," Goth. haidus "manner;" it survives in Eng. only in this suffix.

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Hood River, OR (city, FIPS 34900) Location: 45.70984 N, 121.52193 W
Population (1990): 4632 (2272 housing units)
Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97031

Hood County, TX (county, FIPS 221) Location: 32.43395 N, 97.83455 W
Population (1990): 28981 (14958 housing units)
Area: 1092.0 sq km (land), 39.3 sq km (water)

Mount Hood Parkd, OR Zip code(s): 97041

Hood River County, OR (county, FIPS 27) Location: 45.52262 N, 121.63972 W
Population (1990): 16903 (7569 housing units)
Area: 1353.0 sq km (land), 29.0 sq km (water)

Mount Hood Village, OR (CDP, FIPS 50235) Location: 45.35554 N, 121.97948 W
Population (1990): 2234 (1345 housing units)
Area: 17.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Fort Hood, TX (CDP, FIPS 26736) Location: 31.13379 N, 97.77413 W
Population (1990): 35580 (5618 housing units)
Area: 39.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 76544

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Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d; cild child + -h[=a]d. See Child, and -hood.]

1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

I have walked before you from my childhood. --1. Sam. xii. 2.

2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]

The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W. Scott.

3. The commencement; the first period.

The childhood of our joy. --Shak.

Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.