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. Salman Al-Ansari:

   The U.S. needs to confront the evils of the Brotherhood as soon as possible, if you have Saudi Arabia saying the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group, if you have Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) saying it’s a terrorist group, then what should stop the U.S. from designating the MB as a terrorist group as long there are hundreds of pieces of evidence that prove this fact?

2. Ronald David Laing:

   The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

3. Mark Twain:

   The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

4. Jamal Khashoggis:

   Muslim Brotherhood's just labels and people not doing their homework properly, and reading his article and going in depth. Muslim Brotherhood's easier to stick a label on him.

5. 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.