Brotherhood (The Chemical Brothers album)
WordNet
noun
(1) The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
(2) People engaged in a particular occupation
"The medical fraternity"
(3) An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
"You have to join the union in order to get a job"
(4) The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
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Etymology
brotherhod, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early brotherrede "brotherhood, fraternity" from brōþorrǣden "brotherhood, fellowship" from brōþor "brother" + -rǣden, suffix denoting condition or state. More at brother, -red
Noun
- The state of being brothers or a brother.
- An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
- Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
- A brotherhood of venerable trees. - William Wordsworth.