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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Brotherhood \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.] 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. Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: brotherhood n 1: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings 2: people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" [syn: {fraternity}, {sodality}] 3: the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers 4: 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}]
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