Brotherhood - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Brotherhood :  (noun)
1: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
2: people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" [syn: fraternity, sodality]
3: the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
4: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades union]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Brotherhood : \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.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)

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