brotherhood
    n 1: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the
         siblings
    2: people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical
       fraternity" [syn: brotherhood, 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,
       brotherhood]

Brotherhood \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.]
   1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
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   2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a
      fraternity.
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   3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, --
      especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or
      medical brotherhood.
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   4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
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            A brotherhood of venerable trees.     --Wordsworth.
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   Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
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