brethrennoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈbreð.rən/us/ˈbreð.rən/old-fashioned(used as a form of address to members of an organization or religious group) brothers
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- Baptist
- born-again
- Calvinist
- get religion idiom
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- non-sectarian
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- Sunni
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
See more results »
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Organizations - position & status
Examples from literature
- A strange blasphemy, he muttered, and yet not strange enough to save the brethren from the infection of it.
- Brethren, let us not aspire to the high things of the world, but to the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
- The clergy of the West despised their brethren of the East for their cowardly submission to the secular arm.
- The word, my brethren, the answer to all that, is nigh unto us, even in our mouth and in our heart.