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The state of being brothers or a brother.

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  1. n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
  2. n. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  3. n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
  4. n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
  5. n. the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
  6. n. people engaged in a particular occupation
  7. n. the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
  8. n. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
  9. 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. 2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. 3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. 4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
  10. n:100 n. the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings n. people engaged in a particular occupation n. the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers