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brotherhood
(encz) | brotherhood,bratrstvo n: Zdeněk Brož |
Brotherhood
(gcide) | Brotherhood \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.]
1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
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2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a
fraternity.
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3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, --
especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or
medical brotherhood.
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4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
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A brotherhood of venerable trees. --Wordsworth.
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Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
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brotherhood
(wn) | brotherhood
n 1: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the
siblings
2: people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical
fraternity" [syn: brotherhood, 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,
brotherhood] |
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