Fraternal

Quick meaning: Fraternal is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.

More Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a fraternity.
2. Platonic or friendly.
3. (genetics) Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.
4. A society formed to provide mutual aid, such as insurance.
5. A fraternal twin.

Example Sentences

Yet, in leaving, Judah removes himself not only from fraternal violence but from familial destiny as well.

North and South, fraternal and sororital organizations were an integral aspect of urban culture among the mass of working-class black men and women.

The changing Afro-American class structure shaped the war and postwar growth of black religious and fraternal organizations in southern West Virginia.

By Cognate or Domestic duties, we mean those which grow out of the different family relations; and which may be classed as conjugal, parental, filial, and fraternal.

Word Forms

• fraternall
• fraternals

Synonyms for fraternal

Depending on context, synonyms include brotherly, brotherlike, biovular.

Antonyms for fraternal

Common opposites include identical, sororal, monovular, sisterly, sisterlike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brotherly, brotherlike, biovular, brotherhood, bro, brother.

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