Meanings
nounfamilyhood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being a family.
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.
1896, John Patterson Coyle, The Imperial Christ, page 931 more example
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.
2021 January 27, AFP, “Fans remember Kobe Bryant 1 year after deadly crash”, in The South African, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021
Origin
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APA
familyhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familyhood
MLA
“familyhood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familyhood. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “familyhood,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/familyhood.
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