familyhood

English

Etymology

family +‎ -hood

Noun

familyhood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a family.
    • 1896, John Patterson Coyle, The Imperial Christ, page 93:
      Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life.
    • 2021 January 27, AFP, “Fans remember Kobe Bryant 1 year after deadly crash”, in The South African‎:
      All you can do as a friend or a loved one or anyone in our brotherhood or our familyhood that we have here in the Lakers organisation is to put an arm around someone when they need it.
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