brother

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  1. noun A male having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
  2. noun One who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, especially:
  3. noun A kinsman.
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  • His relation to his deceased brother, of whose property he gave himself out as the heir, made it improper for him, he said, to express himself freely as to his singular conduct, in the introduction into the fashionable society and respectable families of Boston of such a low person; though, in fact, his brother was a strange, unaccountable man in many respects, and to him quite unfathomable. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • Neither Fisherman's Wharf nor her brother were there anymore. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • Nothing. But Alice always came promptly when called after dark; neither she nor her brother was a night-prowling creature. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
  • “Are you saying that her brother was the thief I doubt very much if he was her brother, honey,” said Cyrus. —  EQMM,August2007
  • In time he grew to be as much disliked as his brother was admired. —  The Life of George Borrow
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brother:   brothers ·  brethren
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English brōthor; see bhrāter- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Scots brither, from Middle English brother, from Anglo-Saxon brōthor, brōther = Old Saxon brōthar = OFries. brōther, brōder = Dutch broeder = Middle Low German brōder, Low German broder, broor = Old High German bruodar, Middle High German bruoder, German bruder = Icelandic brōdhir = Swedish Danish broder, bror = Gothic (Moesogothic) brōthar, a word common to all the Indo-European languages: = Gaelic Irish brathair = Welsh brawd, plural brodyr, = Cornish bredar = Manx braar = Breton breur, brer = Old Bulgarian bratrŭ, bratŭ = Polish and Servian brat = Bohemian bratr = Russian brat (Hungarian barát, from Slav.) = Lithuanian brōlis = Lettish brālis = Old Prussian bratis = Latin frater (later Italian frate, fra, with diminutive fratello = Walloon frate (later Alb. frat) = Portuguese frade = Old French frere (later Middle English frere, English friar, q. v.), modern F. frère = Provencal fraire, later prob. Old Spanish fraire, freire, Spanish fraile, freile, contracted fray, frey = OPg. freire, Portuguese frei, used, like Italian frate, fra, as an appellation of a monk, the Spanish word for ‘brother’ in the natural sense being hermano = Portuguese irmão, from Latin germanus, germane, german; cf. also English fraternal, etc.) = Greek φρατήρ, φράτηρ, one of the same tribe, orig. a brother, = Sanskrit bhrātar, Prakrit bhāā, bhāaro (Hindustani bhāī, bhaīyā, Panjābi pāi, Pāli bhātā) = Zend and OPers. brātar, Persian birādar (later Turkish birāder) = Pahlavi birād = Kurdish berā, brother; ulterior origin unknown: the termination is apparently the suffix -tar (English -ther) of agent. The plural brethren is from Middle English bretheren, brethren, formed, with weak plural ending -en, from brether, brethre, brithere, also plural, an umlauted form of Anglo-Saxon brōthru, also brōthor, the usual plural of brōthor; cf. Anglo-Saxon dative singular brēther.
  2. from brother, n.
 

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