Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or relationship of being brothers.
- n. Fellowship.
- n. An association of men, such as a fraternity or union, united for common purposes.
- n. All the members of a profession or trade.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fact or condition of being a brother.
- n. The quality of being brotherly.
- n. An association of men for any purpose; a fraternity.
- n. A class of individuals of the same kind, profession, or occupation.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
- n. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
- n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
- n. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- n. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession.
- n. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- n. the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
- n. people engaged in a particular occupation
- n. the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
Etymologies
- From Middle English brotherhod, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early Middle English brotherrede ("brotherhood, fraternity"), from Old English brōþorrǣden ("brotherhood, fellowship"), equivalent to brother + -red (see brotherred). More at brother, -red. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“M. O'BRIEN: Yes, you know, the term brotherhood and fraternity is used a lot and it's, in this case, so very real and just the idea of them being there, supporting each other in their final hours.”
“JR Ward, because the brotherhood is a hoot (though not intentionally).”
“Equal to that, I am privileged to belong to what I call the brotherhood of veterans," he said.”
“Damon asks her if the renewed brotherhood is real and Elena tells him that he can trust Stefan.”
“Agreed, the competition in that brotherhood is not intense.”
The Guardian: Arthur Penn: a gentle man and a master of violence
“That is, unless you are convinced the brotherhood is hiding something .”
“ANYWAY I didn't have time to think about it because if Rui goes to France that means our brotherhood is broken!”
“The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War.”
“Their brotherhood comes from the strength of intense faith rooted in indigenous attributes, images, symbols, magic and myth.”
“If teamwork and brotherhood is to be had it must come from both sides.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brotherhood’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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-hood
quality; character; state; condition; whole group of
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Favourites
wither, pallid, evanescent, enamour, discovery, smoky, tempest, pantheon, fatuous, revenant, aquatic, escapist and 92 more...
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waterfront words
themes and values
heroism, love, power, brotherhood, niave, entrapment, alienation, immorality, conscience, remorse, loyalty, confusion and 25 more...
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Webs
Words about relations.
novercal, phratry, stirps, spindle kin, kinnery, ashram, filiation, phratria, deme, apparentation, homology, spear kin and 41 more...
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carmelite
scapular, dark night, marian, carmel, community, ministry, contemplation, lectio divina, rule, constitutions, desert, calced and 40 more...
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herd mentality
More-or-less organized groups of people, on a smaller scale than "the urban planner" list. I can't believe I hadn't made this list earlier!
crowd, clique, coterie, association, organization, coalition, tribe, clan, house, alliance, gang, fellowship and 42 more...
Tweets
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brtom i use it only in context of the male branch (my experience) of the carmelite order ... no slight intended to the sisters Dec 3, 2006