Fraternal
[frə'tɜːn(ə)l] or [frə'tɝnl]
Definition
(adj.) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova; 'fraternal twins are biovular' .
(adj.) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men; 'a fraternal order' .
Inputed by Edna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
Inputed by Joe
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Brotherly.
Editor: Nell
Examples
- Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What, if the more potent of these fraternal deities should obtain dominion over it? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It became fraternal. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Fraternal love, sometimes almost everything, is at others worse than nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He therefore withdrew the fraternal railing, and neatly said that he thought he would, with submission, take his leave. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Fraternal communion with a heretic! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She sat and cried _con_ _amore_ as her uncle intended, but it was _con_ _amore_ fraternal and no other. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The early pal?olithic strain is still strong in us; we are being made over, slowly and reluctantly, into social and fraternal creatures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She is too rich and proud to entertain fraternal sentiments for me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Nell