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:
   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, 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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How to use brotherhood in a sentence?

1. Edwin Markham:

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

2. Ahmed Ezzedine:

   What has changed? ... What is the difference between Egypt in 2014 and Egypt in 2009, before the revolution? Nothing, if Hosni Mubarak and... the aides are innocent of these charges against them, then who killed him? Will they say the Brotherhood did it or that UFOs came from space and killed the Egyptian people and flew away?

3. Martin Luther:

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

4. Stephen Burgher:

   We are part of a brotherhood.

5. Ali Karakas:

   We're seeing a severing of emotional bonds and this is such a dangerous thing, sports should be uniting. Brotherhood and solidarity should be its basis. But because of Turkey’s politics, even sport has been poisoned.