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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun brotherhood has 4 senses
- brotherhood(n = noun.linkdef) Array - the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings; Array is a kind of family relationship, kinship, relationship
- brotherhood(n = noun.group) fraternity, sodality - people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
- brotherhood(n = noun.feeling) Array - the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers; Array is a kind of friendliness
- brotherhood(n = noun.group) labor union, trade union, trades union, union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" is a kind of organisation, organization
Derived form noun brother5
has particulars: industrial union, vertical union, craft union, company union, i.w.w., industrial workers of the world, iww
is a part of labor, labor movement, trade union movement
CIDE DICTIONARY
brotherhood, n. [Brother + -hood.].
- The state of being brothers or a brother. [1913 Webster]
- An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [1913 Webster]
- The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [1913 Webster]
- Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [1913 Webster]"A brotherhood of venerable trees." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
brotherhood, n.
1 a the relationship between brothers. b brotherly friendliness; companionship.
2 a an association, society, or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, trade, etc. b its members collectively.
3 US a trade union.
4 community of feeling between all human beings.
1 a the relationship between brothers. b brotherly friendliness; companionship.
2 a an association, society, or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, trade, etc. b its members collectively.
3 US a trade union.
4 community of feeling between all human beings.
Etymology
ME alt. f. brotherrede f. OE brothor-r{aelig}den (cf. KINDRED) after words in -HOOD, -HEAD
THESAURUS
brotherhood
affectionateness, affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, association, benignancy, benignity, blood, blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherliness, brothership, camaraderie, chumship, circle, clique, club, cognation, colleagueship, common ancestry, common descent, community, community of interest, companionship, compassion, comradeship, confraternity, confrerie, connection, consanguinity, consortship, country club, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, fraternal feeling, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternity, freemasonry, friendship, goodness, goodness of heart, graciousness, guild, heart of gold, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, kindred, kinship, league, loving kindness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, niceness, order, organization, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, secret society, set, sibship, sisterhood, sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, softheartedness, sorority, soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, ties of blood, union, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heartROGET THESAURUS
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Consanguinity
N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.Similarity
N similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance, affinity, approximation, parallelism, agreement, analogy, analogicalness, correspondence, homoiousia, parity, connaturalness, connaturality, brotherhood, family likeness, alliteration, rhyme, pun, repetition, sameness, uniformity, isogamy, analogue, the like, match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister, one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne, gens de meme famille, parallel, simile, type, image, photograph, close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance, similar, resembling, like, alike, twin, analogous, analogical, parallel, of a piece, such as, so, homoiousian, connatural, congener, allied to, akin to, approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like, a show of, mock, pseudo, simulating, representing, exact, lifelike, faithful, true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of, for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau, as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare, instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like, as if, so to speak, as it were, as if it were, quasi, just as, veluti in speculum, et sic de similibus, tel maitre tel valet, tel pere tel fils, like master, like servant, like father, like son, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, a chip off the old block.Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.Party
N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.Friendship
N friendship, amity, friendliness, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity, harmony, peace, firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship, cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness, affection, favoritism, good will, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of, introduction, friendly, amicable, amical, well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm- hearted, friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with, on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing, on speaking terms, on visiting terms, in one's good graces, in one's good books, acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy, welcome, amicably, with open arms, sans ceremonie, arm in arm, amicitia semper prodest, a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one, friendship is love without either flowers or veil, trulgus amicitias utilitate probat.
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