Fraternity vs. Sorority

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.

Sororitynoun

A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.

Sororitynoun

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

Sororitynoun

a social club for female undergraduates