What does "brotherhood" mean?
Brotherhood: An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
Additional senses
- 2.The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
- 3.Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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