brother1 nounbrother2 interjection
brotherbroth‧er1 /ˈbrʌðə $ -ər/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINbrother1
Origin:
Old English brothorEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I have two brothers, James and Karl.
- He came to the defense of his younger brother, Von, by swinging a chain at his attacker.
- He was friend, father, brother, neighbor, lover.
- His decision to send her away from her home and brother into an alien world was interpreted as rejection.
- It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing.
- My brother hangs out with people who beat people up as like a job.
- Personally, I don't believe the allegations which are being made against him and his brother.
- She remembers that people told them they looked alike, and they joked that they were brother and sister.
WORD SETS
abbess, nounabbey, nounabbot, nounabsolution, nounAdvent, nounalleluia, interjectionaltar boy, nounAnglican, nounAnglo-Catholic, nounapocalyptic, adjectiveapostle, nounapostolic, adjectivearchbishop, nounarchbishopric, nounarchdeacon, nounarchdiocese, nounArk of the Covenant, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAuthorized Version, banns, nounbaptism, nounBaptist, nounbaptize, verbbasilica, nounbeadle, nounbeatify, verbBenedictine, nounbenediction, nounbenefice, nounbiblical, adjectivebiretta, nounbishop, nounbishopric, nounblaspheme, verbblasphemy, nounbrother, nounbull, nounCalvinism, nounCalvinist, adjectivecanon, nouncanonical, adjectivecanonize, verbcanon law, nouncantor, nouncardinal, nouncardinal sin, nouncarol, nouncatechism, nouncathedral, nounCatholic, adjectivechantry, nounchapel, nounchaplain, nounchaplaincy, nounchapter, nounchapterhouse, nouncherub, nounChrist, nounchristen, verbChristendom, nounchristening, nounChristian, nounChristian, adjectivechurch, nounchurchgoer, nounchurchman, nounChurch of England, nounchurchwarden, nounchurchwoman, nounchurchyard, nounclergyman, nounclergywoman, nouncleric, nounclerical, adjectiveclerk, nouncloister, nouncollect, nouncommandment, nouncommunicant, nouncompline, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconfessional, nounconfessor, nounconfirmation, nouncongregation, nounCongregationalism, nounconsecrate, verbcope, nouncreationist, nouncreche, nouncrib, nouncrosier, nouncrozier, nouncrucifix, nouncrucifixion, nouncrusade, nouncrusade, verbcrypt, nouncuracy, nouncurate, noundeacon, noundeaconess, noundean, noundeanery, noundiocese, noundisciple, noundisestablish, verbdispensation, noundog collar, nounDominican, nounEaster, nounecclesiastic, nounecclesiastical, adjectiveecumenical, adjectiveEden, nounelder, nounencyclical, nounEpiphany, nounepiscopal, adjectiveEpistle, nounevangelical, adjectiveevangelist, nounevangelize, verbevensong, nounexcommunicate, verbexegesis, nounfellowship, nounflagellant, nounflagellate, verbflock, nounfont, nounFr, friar, nounfrock, nounfundamentalist, noungargoyle, noungenuflect, verbgodfather, nounGod-fearing, adjectivegodless, adjectivegodly, adjectivegodmother, noungodparent, noungodson, nounGood Friday, noungrace, noungracious, adjectiveHail Mary, nounharvest festival, nounHigh Church, nounHigh Mass, nounHoly Communion, nounHoly Father, nounHoly Spirit, nounHoly Week, nounHoly Writ, nounhomily, nounhymn book, nounimprimatur, nounincarnation, nouninduct, verbindulgence, nouninquisitor, nouninterdenominational, adjectiveinterdict, nounJehovah, Jesuit, nounJesus, judgment day, nounlay, adjectivelay reader, nounlectern, nounlesson, nounlitany, nounLow Church, nounlychgate, nounMadonna, nounmanna, nounmanse, nounmatins, nounmeeting-house, nounmessianic, adjectiveMethodist, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveministry, nounminster, nounmiracle, nounmissal, nounmissionary, nounmitre, nounmoderator, nounMonsignor, nounMorning Prayer, nounmortal sin, nounMother of God, nounMother Superior, nounname day, nounNativity, nounNativity play, nounnave, nounNegro spiritual, nounNoah's ark, nounNonconformist, adjectivenuncio, nounoffertory, nounoratory, nounordination, nounoriginal sin, nounOur Father, nounOur Lady, Our Lord, padre, nounPalm Sunday, nounpapacy, nounpapal, adjectivepapist, nounparable, nounparish, nounparish church, nounparish clerk, nounparishioner, nounparochial, adjectiveparochial school, nounparson, nounparsonage, nounpassion play, nounpastor, nounpatriarch, nounpatron saint, nounpenance, nounpenitent, nounPentecost, nounPentecostal, adjectiveperdition, nounPlymouth Brethren, nounpontiff, nounpontifical, adjectivepontificate, nounPope, nounprayer book, nounpredestination, nounprelate, nounPresbyterian, nounpresbytery, nounpriest, nounPrimate, nounprior, nounprioress, nounpriory, nounPromised Land, the, Protestant, nounpsalm, nounpsalmist, nounpsalter, nounpulpit, nounQuaker, nounRC, rector, nounrectory, nounredeem, verbredemption, nounrequiem, nounRev, Revd, Reverend, nounReverend Mother, nounrevival, nounrevival meeting, nounRoman Catholic, adjectiverood screen, nounrosary, nounsacrament, nounsacristan, nounsacristy, nounsaint, nounsainted, adjectivesainthood, nounsaint's day, nounsalvation, nounsanctuary, nounSatan, nounsave, verbschism, nounscriptural, adjectivesecular, adjectivesee, nounseminary, nounseraph, nounsermon, nounsexton, nounShrove Tuesday, nounsister, nounsisterhood, nounSJ, special licence, nounsteeple, nounstigmata, nounstoup, nounSunday school, nounsurplice, nounsynod, nountabernacle, nountestify, verbtransubstantiation, nounTrappist, noununfrock, verbUnitarian, nounvenial, adjectivevespers, nounvestment, nounvestry, nounvicar, nounvicarage, nounvotive, adjectivevow, nounVulgate, the, nounWhitsun, nounwimple, nounXmas, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + brother
His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17. Meet my twin sister.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I have two older brothers.
(=older brother – used especially by or to children)· Jake was my big brother and I admired him.
· Do you have any younger brothers?
(also a kid brother American English) (=younger brother)· My kid brother was always annoying me.
(=brother who is still a baby)· Mum let me hold my new baby brother.
· Luke and his twin brother Sam went everywhere together.
(=brother with only one parent the same as yours)· I never really liked my half-brother.
(=the son of your stepfather or stepmother)· His dad’s new wife brought him two step-brothers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17. (=a younger brother or sister who is still a child) Her little brother and sister were fighting again.
Her little brother and sister were fighting again. Meet my twin sister.· I reckon most little boys believe that their favourite big brother can conquer the world and can do no wrong.· First time my big brother comes to visit me in how many years has it been now?· Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother.· B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.· My big brother Carl became the most utterly-spoiled and pampered child of all.· Ginny, her dad was abusive, and her big brother used to beat her up.· They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.· The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers.
· Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother, Henry.· Paralysed as he was, his elder brother Edwin could never father a child.· Back in the village he is the patriarch, since his father and elder brother are dead.· Many were also referred by elder brothers and sisters or friends who had already been placed.· The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother.· This was because of his elder brother Frank, whose academic career was already starred.
· My eldest brother, Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.· Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart.· Do you remember Will, my eldest brother?· At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother.· She says they once belonged to her eldest brother.· It was her third eldest brother John of Cawdor who entered.· He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey.
· On that occasion it was my little brother Jerry who shone.· Her little brother sobbed, and all of them looked sadly at Bill.· His little, chesty brother had made it.· She is also mean to my little brother.· When Kylie was two, little brother Brendan was born, and a year later Danielle completed the Minogue family.· It was Tess who worried and worked and felt responsible for her little brothers and sisters.· Brian's my little brother, did I tell you?
· Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader, both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin.· When the woman marries the older brother, younger brother is heartbroken.· My older brother got all these O- levels.· He said that he was barely on speaking terms with his older brother and sister, though they lived at home.· Besides, he was with his older brother.· Her parents and 9-year-old brother were in the house at the time.· I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s, but we were actually swimmers.· Charles Horton Cooley as a friend or older brother.
· My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss.· These twin brothers were Giants, but they did not look like the monsters of old.· I have a twin brother and it seemed that he was allowed to do all the things I wasn't.· Some may find him placing far too much emphasis on the impact of his alcoholic parents and stillborn twin brother, Jesse.· He gave his name as Robin Ganguly, his twin brother.· He has a twin brother named Arthur, who is also 126 at the university here.· Here he is aged 15 with twin brother Mark, who's a normal size.· Both his parents and his younger twin brothers died several years ago.
· His one younger brother works in the furniture business.· Worse, it suggests that his questioners had confused him with his younger brother, Alfredo.· His younger brother would say a verse and then they'd put it together.· He has a younger brother, Bobby Mariucci, who lives in Stockton.· Within a month she married Johnny Hesketh, the younger brother of Lord Hesketh.· He is the son of Sir Charles Baskerville's younger brother, who died some years ago.· Edward M.. Kennedy, the younger brother of the slain president, would be his 1972 rival.
NOUN· Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy, and we had a new baby brother, Geoff.· She was responsible for raising her baby brother Aaron.· When he pinches his baby brother he seems indifferent to the infant's distress.· I slept in the same room as my baby brother.· Edward seemed quite grown up, quiet and interesting - and very good-looking instead of pretty like his baby brother!· What would have happened to me if she had died, leaving a baby brother?· My baby brother was on top of the refrigerator on a bed of clean nappies and towels in his plastic baby bath-tub.· Since the birth of her baby brother she had turned really nasty.
· Celie is fourteen years old, she has one sister, Nettie and numerous half brothers and sisters.· The president's half brother and one of his sons sued the government for trampling on their civil rights!
VERB· Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.· Eaglets often kill their younger brothers and sisters in the nest.· She'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother.· Brother killed brother in the Civil War.· Would he have killed my brother?· Erik claimed his father threatened to kill him and his brother to stop Lyle from exposing him as a child molester.· Then, with the Frankish king out of the way, he besieged and killed his brother in the city of Vienne.· Some one killed my brother with a car.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Sit up like a big girl and eat your dinner.
- B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.
- He was my big brother and now he's dead.
- I say bigger brother, but the 880 is only really comparable with the 990 for resolution and performance.
- Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's.
- Spider was a big brother, a mentor, a guidance counselor that put the whole world in his hands.
- Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
- The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers.
- They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.
- Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?
- I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny.
- She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
- The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
- He has a kid sister in the fourth grade at school.
- I suddenly realized Bobby was more than just an annoying kid brother who always wanted to use my stuff.
- And Terry was her kid brother.
- During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister.
- He told me he asked his 4-year-old kid sister the same questions.
- I met his kid brother Ed, the flight nurse, back in Beckley, West Virginia, their hometown.
- Most of them were older than I was, and I was like a kid brother, always hanging around.
- Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
- Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally.
- You may have heard of his kid brother.
- My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
- My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
- Now, for the middle child.
- Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
- The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
- They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
WORD FAMILYnounbrotherbrotherhoodadjectivebrotherly
1a male who has the same parents as you: I have two brothers, William and Mark.elder/older/younger etc brother My younger brother is a doctor.little/kid brother (=younger brother) I have to take my little brother to school. My big brother (=older brother) has always looked after me. my twin brother2spoken informal a word meaning a black man, used especially by other black men3a male member of a group with the same interests, religion, profession etc as you4 (plural brothers or brethren) a male member of a religious group, especially a monk: Brother Justin5American English a member of a fraternity (=a club of male university students)6brothers in arms literary soldiers who have fought together in a war → blood brother, half-brother, stepbrotherCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + brotheran older/elder brother· I have two older brothers.a big brother (=older brother – used especially by or to children)· Jake was my big brother and I admired him.a younger brother· Do you have any younger brothers?a little brother (also a kid brother American English) (=younger brother)· My kid brother was always annoying me.a baby brother (=brother who is still a baby)· Mum let me hold my new baby brother.a twin brother· Luke and his twin brother Sam went everywhere together.a half-brother (=brother with only one parent the same as yours)· I never really liked my half-brother.a step-brother (=the son of your stepfather or stepmother)· His dad’s new wife brought him two step-brothers.brother1 nounbrother2 interjection
brotherbrother2 interjection especially American English COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17. Meet my twin sister.
· We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17. (=a younger brother or sister who is still a child) Her little brother and sister were fighting again.
Her little brother and sister were fighting again. Meet my twin sister.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
used to show you are annoyed or surprised: - Sit up like a big girl and eat your dinner.
- B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.
- He was my big brother and now he's dead.
- I say bigger brother, but the 880 is only really comparable with the 990 for resolution and performance.
- Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's.
- Spider was a big brother, a mentor, a guidance counselor that put the whole world in his hands.
- Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
- The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers.
- They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.
- Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?
- I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny.
- She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
- The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
- He has a kid sister in the fourth grade at school.
- I suddenly realized Bobby was more than just an annoying kid brother who always wanted to use my stuff.
- And Terry was her kid brother.
- During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister.
- He told me he asked his 4-year-old kid sister the same questions.
- I met his kid brother Ed, the flight nurse, back in Beckley, West Virginia, their hometown.
- Most of them were older than I was, and I was like a kid brother, always hanging around.
- Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
- Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally.
- You may have heard of his kid brother.
- My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell.
- My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes.
- Now, for the middle child.
- Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things.
- The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five.
- They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school.
Oh, brother – I really don’t want to deal with this now.