Brotherhood
['brʌðəhʊd] or ['brʌðɚhʊd]
Definition
(noun.) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers.
(noun.) people engaged in a particular occupation; 'the medical fraternity'.
(noun.) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings.
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Definition
(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.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers).[2]. Fraternity, ASSOCIATION, sodality, society, CLIQUE, coterie, clan, JUNTO.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality
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Examples
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And one in heart, as one in blood, Shall all her peoples be; The hands of human brotherhood Shall clasp beneath the sea. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When love is no longer akin to hate, then brotherhood will exist: we are very far from that state at present. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If he gave me to the law, I could give him to the Brotherhood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The principles of the Brotherhood are two. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have said that the Brotherhood identifies its members by a mark that lasts for life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Your democracy is an absolute lie--your brotherhood of man is a pure falsity, if you apply it further than the mathematical abstraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To me there is a great difference between the bear and the man and I do not believe the wizardry of the gypsies about the brotherhood with animals. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A man who has been false to the Brotherhood is discovered sooner or later by the chiefs who know him--presidents or secretaries, as the case may be. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He knew nothing of the brotherhood of man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the earlier years of the war there was a very widespread feeling of brotherhood and the common interest in all the belligerent states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the laws of the Brotherhood are the laws of no other political society on the face of the earth. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A man who has this mark, branded in this place, he said, covering his arm again, is a member of the Brotherhood. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The universal brotherhood of mankind was laughed to scorn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I entreat you, by our common brotherhood, not to interpose between me and a subject so sublime, the absurd figure of an angry baker! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With a view to concealment we will establish secret brotherhoods and political clubs. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Robert