Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brotherhood"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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: {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}]
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