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The state of being brothers or a brother.
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Definitions
- n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
- n. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
- n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
- 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
- n. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- 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.
- 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