01 n. The state of being brothers or a brother.
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The state of being brothers or a brother.
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2.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
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3.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
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4.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.“A brotherhood of venerable trees.” — Wordsworth.
Syn.
Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.