Brotherhood vs. Fraternity

Brotherhoodnoun

The state of being brothers or a brother.

Brotherhoodnoun

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

Brotherhoodnoun

The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession

Brotherhoodnoun

People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.

Brotherhoodnoun

The state of being brothers or a brother.

Brotherhoodnoun

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

Brotherhoodnoun

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

Brotherhoodnoun

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

Brotherhoodnoun

the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

Brotherhoodnoun

people engaged in a particular occupation;

Brotherhoodnoun

the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers

Brotherhoodnoun

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer;

Brotherhoodnoun

the relationship between brothers

Brotherhoodnoun

the feeling of kinship with and closeness to a group of people or all people

Brotherhoodnoun

an association or community of people linked by a common interest, religion, or trade

Brotherhoodnoun

a trade union

Fraternitynoun

The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

Fraternitynoun

A group of people associated for a common purpose.

Fraternitynoun

(US) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

Fraternitynoun

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

Fraternitynoun

A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

Fraternitynoun

Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.

Fraternitynoun

A social club for male college undergraduates. They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters. The corresponding association for women students is called a sorority.

Fraternitynoun

a social club for male undergraduates

Fraternitynoun

people engaged in a particular occupation;

Fraternity

A fraternity (from Latin frater: whence, ) or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men associated together for various religious or secular aims. Fraternity in the Western concept developed in the Christian context, notably with the religious orders in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.