1. Noun
The state of being brothers or a brother.
2. Noun
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. Noun
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
4. Noun
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
5. Noun
an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
Vocabulary classified under Law
6. Noun
the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
7. Noun
people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
8. Noun
the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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