'Brotherhood' definitions:
Definition of 'brotherhood'
(from WordNet)
noun
The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
noun
People engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" [syn: brotherhood, fraternity, sodality]
noun
The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
noun
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood]
Definition of 'Brotherhood'
From: GCIDE
- Brotherhood \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.]
- 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [1913 Webster]
- A brotherhood of venerable trees. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'brotherhood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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 heart