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Fraternity

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Club 76% connected

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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Gild 76% connected

To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

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Guild 76% connected

An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or cor…

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Lodge 76% connected

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Society 76% connected

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

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Stratum 76% connected

A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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Fraternize 74% connected

To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.

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Fraternize 74% connected

To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.

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Brother 70% connected

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a…

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Chapter 70% connected

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

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Brotherhood 92% connected

The state of being brothers or a brother.

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Sodality 92% connected

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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