fraternity

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

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.

Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

brotherhood sodality community frat union league association federation lodge guild confederation confederacy house alliance college
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Antonyms

division sisterhood conflict dispute disagreement hostility
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Hypernyms

lodge guild class order society club

Related terms

fraternal sorority fratricide fraternize fraternise fraternity house

Phrases with the word

jesuit fraternity informal fraternity girl hanging around a fraternity girl supporting the fraternity girl in the fraternity templar fraternity

Derivatives

fraternities

Examples

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. Camille Paglia

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. Eric Hoffer

Real fraternity is not about blood, it is about sharing. Rwandan Proverb

The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions. Italian Proverb

A village united in fraternity is prosperous. Bayaka Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fraternise fraterniser fraternism fraternity house fraternizable fraternization