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Webster 1913 Edition
Brotherhood
Broth′er-hood
,Noun.
[
Brother
+ -hood
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brotherhood
BROTH'ERHOOD
,Noun.
1.
An association of men for any purpose,as a society of monks; a fraternity.2.
A class of men of the same kind, profession, or occupation.