broth·er·hood /ˈbrʌðɚ/
手足情誼,兄弟關係
Broth·er·hood n.
1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
A brotherhood of venerable trees. --Wordsworth.
Syn: -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
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brotherhood
n 1: the kinship relation between a male offspring and the
siblings
2: people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical
fraternity" [syn: fraternity, sodality]
3: the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
4: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades
union]