Synonyms for Brotherhood
ˈbrʌð ərˌhʊdbroth·er·hood

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1. brotherhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   sodality, fraternity, association, brethren, fellowship

2. brotherhoodnoun

   The state of being brothers or a brother.

   Synonyms:
   fraternity, fellowship, brethren, association, sodality

3. brotherhoodnoun

   An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.

   Synonyms:
   brethren, fraternity, fellowship, association, sodality

4. brotherhoodnoun

   The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

   Synonyms:
   fellowship, sodality, brethren, fraternity, association

5. brotherhoodnoun

   Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

   A brotherhood of venerable trees. - William Wordsworth.

   Synonyms:
   association, fraternity, sodality, fellowship, brethren

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1. brotherhood

   Synonyms:
   fraternity, association, fellowship, society, sodality

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1. brotherhoodnoun

   the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

   Synonyms:
   labor union, sodality, fraternity, trade union, trades union, union

2. brotherhood, fraternity, sodalitynoun

   people engaged in a particular occupation

   "the medical fraternity"

   Synonyms:
   brotherhood, fraternity, trades union, trade union, frat, labor union, sodality, union

3. brotherhoodnoun

   the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers

   Synonyms:
   labor union, sodality, fraternity, trade union, trades union, union

4. union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhoodnoun

   an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

   "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

   Synonyms:
   conglutination, sexual union, fraternity, join, trades union, uniting, matrimony, unification, coupling, sum, spousal relationship, union, trade union, pairing, conjugation, wedlock, marriage, mating, sodality, brotherhood, labor union, jointure

Matched Categories

1. • Friendliness
   • Kinship
   • Organization

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1. confraternity

   noun - a brotherhood, especially with a religious or charitable purpose.

   Submitted by RobertHaigh on June 14, 2020  

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1. brotherhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers)

2. brotherhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   fraternity, ASSOCIATION, sodality, society, CLIQUE, coterie, clan, JUNTO

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1. brotherhoodnoun

   Synonyms:
   fraternity, fellowship

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1. List of paraphrases for "brotherhood":

   fraternity, brotherhoods, ikhwan, fraternité, brothers, ikhwanite, al-ikhwan, frat, brotherliness, sorority, sisterhood, bmwe, brethren, fellowship, pfi, frères, fraternal

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1. Ryan Mauro:

   There are two messages being sent by ISIS besides the obvious shock factor : First, their caliphate is an actual functioning and legitimate state. Second, this is long-term struggle, this is a way of saying that ISIS has succeeded( in creating a state) where Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists have failed.

2. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry:

   There are certainly members of the Muslim Brotherhood who are in prison, who are facing trial for having perpetrated actions or activities that are not within the confines of the law, we are doing so in the context of a judicial system without any resort to any extra-judicial measures.

3. Erika Eleniak:

   It really was just like a big family, honestly, brothers and sisters. There was this big camaderie and we had a lot of lifeguards and paramedics [ on set ] that were real because one of the main creators was a real lifeguard … And there was a real brotherhood among all the lifeguards … The cast and crew were just really amazing.

4. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

5. Edwin Markham:

   The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.