Fraternity
[frə'tɜːnɪtɪ] or [frə'tɝnəti]
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
(n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
(n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
Typed by Gordon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Association, society, company, circle, brotherhood, sociality, league, clan, united body.
Inputed by Agnes
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BROTHERHOOD]
Typist: Pierce
Examples
- Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;--the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In those days the telegraph fraternity was rather demoralized, and the discipline was very lax. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Liberty, equality, fraternity--what a grotesque career those words have had. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Well might I ask when he offered fraternity--Dare I rely on you? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Adopted fraternity will not do in this case. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Endurance, overgoaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Did his look speak a kindness beyond fraternity or amity? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You believe in Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Robert