Meaning of BROTHERHOOD
| Pronunciation: | | 'brudhur`hûd
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | fraternity, labor union, sodality, trade union, trades union, union |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | |  Brotherhood
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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