Brotherhood

Quick meaning: Brotherhood is a noun meaning The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).

Meaning

The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).

More Meanings

1. An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
2. All the people engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
3. People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.

Example Sentences

the legal brotherhood

the medical brotherhood

a brotherhood of venerable trees

James formed a kind of brotherhood for ex-pats who were working in Valencia.

Word Forms

• brotherhoods

Synonyms for brotherhood

Depending on context, synonyms include fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren, brolationship.

Antonyms for brotherhood

Common opposites include irrelationship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fraternity, sodality, union, fraternal, brotherliness, brotherly.

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