About The Word Brotherhood
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Brotherhood
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What's The Definition Of Brotherhood?
[n] the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
[n] people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" [n] an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [n] the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings Synonyms | Synonyms for Brotherhood: fraternity | labor union | sodality | trade union | trades union | union Related Terms | Find terms related to Brotherhood: affectionateness | affiliation | agnation | alliance | ancestry | association | benignancy | benignity | blood | blood relationship | boon companionship | brotherliness | brothership | camaraderie | chumship | circle | clique | club | cognation | colleagueship | common ancestry | common descent | community | community of interest | companionship | compassion | comradeship | confraternity | confrerie | connection | consanguinity | consortship | country club | cousinhood | cousinship | enation | esprit de corps | fatherhood | feeling of kinship | fellow feeling | fellowship | filiation | fraternal feeling | fraternal order | fraternalism | fraternity | freemasonry | friendship | goodness | goodness of heart | graciousness | guild | heart of gold | humaneness | humanity | kindheartedness | kindliness | kindly disposition | kindness | kindred | kinship | league | loving kindness | maternity | matrilineage | matriliny | matrisib | matrocliny | motherhood | niceness | order | organization | paternity | patrilineage | patriliny | patrisib | patrocliny | propinquity | relation | relationship | secret society | set | sibship | sisterhood | sisterliness | sistership | society | sodality | softheartedness | sorority | soul of kindness | sympathy | tenderheartedness | ties of blood | union | warmheartedness | warmth | warmth of heart See Also | brother | class | company union | craft union | family relationship | friendliness | industrial union | kinship | labor | labor movement | organisation | organization | relationship | social class | socio-economic class | sodalist | trade union movement | vertical union Brotherhood In Webster's Dictionary \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.]
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.
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