Meaning of FRATERNITY
| Pronunciation: | | fru'turnitee
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity"
- [n] a social club for male undergraduates
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FRATERNITY is a 10 letter word that starts with F. |
| | Synonyms: | | brotherhood, frat, sodality |
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| | See Also: | | brother, chapter, class, club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social class, society, socio-economic class, sodalist | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fra*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Fraternities}. [F.
fraternit['e], L. fraternitas.]
1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly;
brotherhood.
2. A body of men associated for their common interest,
business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a
society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for
special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and
destitute, etc.
3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character,
or tastes.
With what terms of respect knaves and sots will
speak of their own fraternity! --South.
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| | Related Terms: | | affiliation, agnation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, ancestry, association, blood, blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherhood, brotherliness, brothership, cahoots, camaraderie, chumship, circle, clan, clannishness, clique, closeness, club, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cognation, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, common ancestry, common descent, community, community of interest, companionship, company, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, confrerie, connection, consanguinity, consociation, consolidation, consortship, cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, coterie, country club, cousinhood, cousinship, crowd, enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, federation, fellowship, filiation, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternization, freemasonry, friendship, fusion, guild, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, kindred, kinship, league, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, membership, merger, motherhood, order, partaking, participation, partnership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relatedness, relation, relationship, secret society, set, sharing, sibship, sisterhood, sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, solidarity, sorority, tie-in, ties of blood, tie-up, unification, union, unity |
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