1. The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings 
2. People engaged in a particular occupation
   - fraternity, sodality 
3. The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers 
4. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
   - union, labor union [US], trade union, trades union, labour union [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: brotherhoods

See also: Brother, fraternal

Type of: class, family relationship, friendliness, kinship, organisation [Brit], organization, relationship, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

Part of: labor [US], labor movement [US, Austral], labour [Brit, Cdn], labour movement [Brit, Cdn], trade union movement

Encyclopedia: Brotherhood

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