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BROTHERHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("brotherhood" is a kind of...):
friendliness (a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company)
Sense 2
Meaning:
People engaged in a particular occupation
Example:
the medical fraternity
Synonyms:
brotherhood; fraternity; sodality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("brotherhood" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Meronyms (members of "brotherhood"):
brother (a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group))
sodalist (a member of a sodality)
Derivation:
Brother ((Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
Example:
you have to join the union in order to get a job
Synonyms:
brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("brotherhood" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brotherhood"):
industrial union; vertical union (a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft)
craft union (a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft)
company union (a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union)
I.W.W.; Industrial Workers of the World; IWW (a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I)
Holonyms ("brotherhood" is a part of...):
labor; labor movement; trade union movement (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("brotherhood" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
