About The Word Fraternity

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Fraternity

Fraternity Meaning & Definition
Fraternity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fraternity?

[n] people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
[n] a social club for male undergraduates

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fraternity: brotherhood | frat | sodality

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fraternity: affiliation | agnation | alignment | alliance | amalgamation | ancestry | association | blood | blood relationship | boon companionship | brotherhood | brotherliness | brothership | cahoots | camaraderie | chumship | circle | clan | clannishness | clique | closeness | club | coadunation | coalescence | coalition | cognation | colleagueship | collegialism | collegiality | combination | common ancestry | common descent | community | community of interest | companionship | company | comradeship | confederacy | confederation | confraternity | confrerie | connection | consanguinity | consociation | consolidation | consortship | cooperation | copartnership | copartnery | coterie | country club | cousinhood | cousinship | crowd | enation | esprit de corps | fatherhood | federation | fellowship | filiation | fraternal order | fraternalism | fraternization | freemasonry | friendship | fusion | guild | hookup | inclusion | incorporation | integration | kindred | kinship | league | maternity | matrilineage | matriliny | matrisib | matrocliny | membership | merger | motherhood | order | partaking | participation | partnership | paternity | patrilineage | patriliny | patrisib | patrocliny | propinquity | relatedness | relation | relationship | secret society | set | sharing | sibship | sisterhood | sisterliness | sistership | society | sodality | solidarity | sorority | tie-in | ties of blood | tie-up | unification | union | unity

See Also | brother | chapter | class | club | gild | guild | lodge | order | social class | society | socio-economic class | sodalist

Fraternity In Webster's Dictionary

\Fra*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Fraternities}. [F. fraternit['e], L. fraternitas.] 1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood. 2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc. 3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes. With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity! --South.

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