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Definition of brotherhood in English: brotherhoodnoun ˈbrʌðəhʊdˈbrəðərˌhʊd 1mass noun The relationship between brothers. Example sentencesExamples - But the truth was that the bond of brotherhood was strong between the two of them that neither could truly deny the other anything, though Will exploited this relationship much more than Eaton.
- They are destined to meet again in a confrontation that will test the bonds of their brotherhood.
- Kan Je-Gyu created a masterpiece of loyalty, honor and the everlasting bonds of brotherhood.
- Before the end of the film, Chris must come of age, Deel must be slain, and the bond of brotherhood has to be shown to be the most important in the world.
Synonyms comradeship, fellowship, brotherliness, fraternalism, kinship companionship, camaraderie, friendship, amity, rapport French esprit de corps - 1.1 The feeling of kinship with and closeness to a group of people or all people.
a gesture of solidarity and brotherhood Example sentencesExamples - In other words, what we need is a genuine commitment to the principles of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.
- In essence most of these religions have the same essence of love, brotherhood and compassion.
- May the hearts of Christians and Muslims turn to one another with feelings of brotherhood and friendship, so that the Almighty may bless us with the peace which heaven alone can give.
- When it comes to brotherhood of faith, it is far superior to brotherhood of relationship.
- The one thing contractors can never replace, however, in a job offer is that camaraderie, that brotherhood that's established when you serve the U.S. military.
- I miss the Bay area brotherhood and sisterhood.
- Yet, in spite of all this feeling of brotherhood, Canada from the very beginning of the crisis came in for American criticism for the nonchalant way immigration services were handled.
- The Jewish idea of redemption is synonymous with all humanity living together in peace and brotherhood, in a close spiritual relationship with the infinite Creator of the universe.
- There is a feeling of brotherhood and affection awakened here.
- For Joburg's Emergency Management Services the international bonds of brotherhood with other emergency workers are strong.
- He added that organizing more and more such events would spread the message of peace, brotherhood and amity among the people living across the globe.
- Cut the ties that bind us together, cut the bond, cut our brotherhood and our sisterhood, and we suffer.
- The Prophet, however, continued to establish a bond of brotherhood between each two of his companions, when more people declared their acceptance of Islam.
- As a show of brotherhood, every rugby match is followed by a ‘social’ where the home team feeds and hosts the visiting team.
- We are able to build up brotherhood and sisterhood.
- When the movie ends, as ambiguously as it began, the dominant note is not anger or even sadness, but a quiet feeling of brotherhood, a clearer sense of the ties that bind us together.
- This bond of sisterhood reflects the bond of brotherhood within US infantry squads where men are broken down into smaller teams.
- The bond of friendship, brotherhood and enthusiasm to sacrifice themselves for each other were no longer there.
- In this trip, the message we are carrying is one of peace, brotherhood and friendship.
- This focus continues, encouraged by international scouting events and an emphasis on sisterhood and brotherhood across cultures.
Synonyms group, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, in-crowd, clan, faction, pack, band, ring, fraternity, society, troop, company, team
2An association or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, or trade. Example sentencesExamples - Of course, we're told that the Freemasons are no longer a secret brotherhood, but a brotherhood with secrets.
- Under the umbrella of their different tariqas the brotherhoods developed formidable organizations bound by personal ties of allegiance to their leaders.
- Police brotherhood boss Yves Francoeur is no fan of the public security officers that patrol 17 of the 27 island boroughs.
- Bearing in mind this historical-philosophical context, it becomes easier to understand how the tavolette came to be integrated into the rituals performed by the brotherhoods that ministered to the condemned.
- Each one belongs to a secret brotherhood affiliated to one of Seville's many churches.
- Mystery schools and secret brotherhoods state a similar claim, that their wisdom comes from ‘somewhere else’ and are guided by a superior race of beings.
- That is the covenant, the bond that binds this brotherhood of airmen.
- Do you have to be a member of any sort of organised religion to join the brotherhood?
- These ties include family, friends, ethnic groups, neighborhood associations, religious brotherhoods, and hometown networks.
- The Safavid brotherhood was originally a religious group.
- Costigan found that the man and other members of the union comprised a brotherhood of organised criminals.
- Although many particulars of Bamana initiation societies, or jow, are still little known, rites of passage and the control of power are acknowledged aspects of these associations or brotherhoods.
- Hundreds of brotherhoods associated with the Jesuits had to be dissolved.
- ‘The government is not afraid of the brotherhood,’ Ahmed Nazif, the prime minister, said last week.
- Young men who called themselves disciplinantes, the flagellators, organized into religious brotherhoods for the specific purpose of scourging the flesh ‘in payment for all the sins of the Christian people’.
- Members of any religion are invited to join the brotherhood.
- It was a brotherhood or association that catered to elderly craftsmen.
- Basically all those who lived away from the plantations and could claim a small plot of land, membership in a religious brotherhood, or political patronage were considered Forros.
- He epitomised the keenness and competitive spirit of the Great Race as well as that of the racing community as a brotherhood.
- Your tongue will be torn out if you reveal any of the secrets of the brotherhood… That's often said to be one of the rules of the secret societies which have been around for centuries.
Synonyms society, association, union, alliance, institution, league, guild, coalition, affiliation, consortium, fraternity, order, body, community, club, syndicate, circle, lodge, clan, set, clique, coterie rare sodality - 2.1North American A trade union.
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Example sentencesExamples - If judged by membership density alone, one might conclude that most running trades workers found the brotherhoods ' message compelling.
- Plus, there is a brotherhood in union construction that resembles military comraderie.
- The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States.
- Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters (MARCC), an affiliate of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
- Similarly, the railroad brotherhoods ' temperance efforts resembled but did not duplicate bourgeois temperance movements.
- Viewed this way, the railroad brotherhoods ' language of temperance and respectable manhood was as much intended for public consumption as it was the uplift of railwaymen.
- Thus, activists in the railroad brotherhoods, together with the wives and sisters of organized railwaymen based in the women's auxiliaries, turned their attention to the problem of masculine intemperance.
- The most common association, the compagnonnage, was a brotherhood of journeymen that upheld rituals and traditions dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
- To be sure, there was a range of opinion within the railroad brotherhoods - the rank and file accepted, resisted, and altered the ‘official’ brotherhood message in varying degrees.
- The challenge for the railroad brotherhoods, of course, was to make good on their temperance promises.
- The craft brotherhoods of railway men, founded in the last decades of the nineteenth century with only-white membership clauses in their constitutions, enforced the racially segmented order of railroad work.
- The railroad brotherhoods and their women's auxiliaries, however, deployed a ‘respectable’ style of manhood in their efforts to win train workers over to a temperate lifestyle.
Origin Middle English: probably from obsolete brotherred (based on Old English -rǣden 'condition, state'; compare with kindred). The change of suffix was due to association with words ending in -hood and -head1. Definition of brotherhood in US English: brotherhoodnounˈbrəðərˌhʊdˈbrəT͟Hərˌho͝od 1The relationship between brothers. Example sentencesExamples - Before the end of the film, Chris must come of age, Deel must be slain, and the bond of brotherhood has to be shown to be the most important in the world.
- But the truth was that the bond of brotherhood was strong between the two of them that neither could truly deny the other anything, though Will exploited this relationship much more than Eaton.
- They are destined to meet again in a confrontation that will test the bonds of their brotherhood.
- Kan Je-Gyu created a masterpiece of loyalty, honor and the everlasting bonds of brotherhood.
Synonyms comradeship, fellowship, brotherliness, fraternalism, kinship - 1.1 The feeling of kinship with and closeness to a group of people or all people.
a gesture of solidarity and brotherhood Example sentencesExamples - When the movie ends, as ambiguously as it began, the dominant note is not anger or even sadness, but a quiet feeling of brotherhood, a clearer sense of the ties that bind us together.
- The Prophet, however, continued to establish a bond of brotherhood between each two of his companions, when more people declared their acceptance of Islam.
- This bond of sisterhood reflects the bond of brotherhood within US infantry squads where men are broken down into smaller teams.
- The bond of friendship, brotherhood and enthusiasm to sacrifice themselves for each other were no longer there.
- May the hearts of Christians and Muslims turn to one another with feelings of brotherhood and friendship, so that the Almighty may bless us with the peace which heaven alone can give.
- The one thing contractors can never replace, however, in a job offer is that camaraderie, that brotherhood that's established when you serve the U.S. military.
- This focus continues, encouraged by international scouting events and an emphasis on sisterhood and brotherhood across cultures.
- He added that organizing more and more such events would spread the message of peace, brotherhood and amity among the people living across the globe.
- As a show of brotherhood, every rugby match is followed by a ‘social’ where the home team feeds and hosts the visiting team.
- I miss the Bay area brotherhood and sisterhood.
- There is a feeling of brotherhood and affection awakened here.
- In this trip, the message we are carrying is one of peace, brotherhood and friendship.
- When it comes to brotherhood of faith, it is far superior to brotherhood of relationship.
- Cut the ties that bind us together, cut the bond, cut our brotherhood and our sisterhood, and we suffer.
- Yet, in spite of all this feeling of brotherhood, Canada from the very beginning of the crisis came in for American criticism for the nonchalant way immigration services were handled.
- In essence most of these religions have the same essence of love, brotherhood and compassion.
- For Joburg's Emergency Management Services the international bonds of brotherhood with other emergency workers are strong.
- We are able to build up brotherhood and sisterhood.
- In other words, what we need is a genuine commitment to the principles of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.
- The Jewish idea of redemption is synonymous with all humanity living together in peace and brotherhood, in a close spiritual relationship with the infinite Creator of the universe.
Synonyms group, set, crowd, lot, circle, coterie, in-crowd, clan, faction, pack, band, ring, fraternity, society, troop, company, team
2An association, society, or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, or trade. Example sentencesExamples - That is the covenant, the bond that binds this brotherhood of airmen.
- The Safavid brotherhood was originally a religious group.
- Basically all those who lived away from the plantations and could claim a small plot of land, membership in a religious brotherhood, or political patronage were considered Forros.
- Bearing in mind this historical-philosophical context, it becomes easier to understand how the tavolette came to be integrated into the rituals performed by the brotherhoods that ministered to the condemned.
- Do you have to be a member of any sort of organised religion to join the brotherhood?
- He epitomised the keenness and competitive spirit of the Great Race as well as that of the racing community as a brotherhood.
- It was a brotherhood or association that catered to elderly craftsmen.
- Members of any religion are invited to join the brotherhood.
- ‘The government is not afraid of the brotherhood,’ Ahmed Nazif, the prime minister, said last week.
- Mystery schools and secret brotherhoods state a similar claim, that their wisdom comes from ‘somewhere else’ and are guided by a superior race of beings.
- Costigan found that the man and other members of the union comprised a brotherhood of organised criminals.
- Hundreds of brotherhoods associated with the Jesuits had to be dissolved.
- Young men who called themselves disciplinantes, the flagellators, organized into religious brotherhoods for the specific purpose of scourging the flesh ‘in payment for all the sins of the Christian people’.
- Under the umbrella of their different tariqas the brotherhoods developed formidable organizations bound by personal ties of allegiance to their leaders.
- Although many particulars of Bamana initiation societies, or jow, are still little known, rites of passage and the control of power are acknowledged aspects of these associations or brotherhoods.
- Each one belongs to a secret brotherhood affiliated to one of Seville's many churches.
- Of course, we're told that the Freemasons are no longer a secret brotherhood, but a brotherhood with secrets.
- These ties include family, friends, ethnic groups, neighborhood associations, religious brotherhoods, and hometown networks.
- Police brotherhood boss Yves Francoeur is no fan of the public security officers that patrol 17 of the 27 island boroughs.
- Your tongue will be torn out if you reveal any of the secrets of the brotherhood… That's often said to be one of the rules of the secret societies which have been around for centuries.
Synonyms society, association, union, alliance, institution, league, guild, coalition, affiliation, consortium, fraternity, order, body, community, club, syndicate, circle, lodge, clan, set, clique, coterie - 2.1North American A labor union.
Example sentencesExamples - To be sure, there was a range of opinion within the railroad brotherhoods - the rank and file accepted, resisted, and altered the ‘official’ brotherhood message in varying degrees.
- Similarly, the railroad brotherhoods ' temperance efforts resembled but did not duplicate bourgeois temperance movements.
- If judged by membership density alone, one might conclude that most running trades workers found the brotherhoods ' message compelling.
- The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States.
- The challenge for the railroad brotherhoods, of course, was to make good on their temperance promises.
- The most common association, the compagnonnage, was a brotherhood of journeymen that upheld rituals and traditions dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
- Thus, activists in the railroad brotherhoods, together with the wives and sisters of organized railwaymen based in the women's auxiliaries, turned their attention to the problem of masculine intemperance.
- The railroad brotherhoods and their women's auxiliaries, however, deployed a ‘respectable’ style of manhood in their efforts to win train workers over to a temperate lifestyle.
- Viewed this way, the railroad brotherhoods ' language of temperance and respectable manhood was as much intended for public consumption as it was the uplift of railwaymen.
- Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters (MARCC), an affiliate of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
- Plus, there is a brotherhood in union construction that resembles military comraderie.
- The craft brotherhoods of railway men, founded in the last decades of the nineteenth century with only-white membership clauses in their constitutions, enforced the racially segmented order of railroad work.
Origin Middle English: probably from obsolete brotherred (based on Old English -rǣden ‘condition, state’; compare with kindred). The change of suffix was due to association with words ending in -hood and -head. |