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1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. "A brotherhood of venerable trees." (Wordsworth)
Synonyms: Fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality.
Origin: Brother + -hood.
(01 Mar 1998)
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