brotherhood : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: brotherhood	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for brotherhood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brotherhood n the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" Synonym(s): brotherhood, fraternity, sodality the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" Synonym(s): union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brotherhood \Broth"erhood\, 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.