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English noun: brotherhood | |||
| 1. | brotherhood the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | family relationship, kinship, relationship | ||
| 2. | brotherhood (group) people engaged in a particular occupation | ||
| Samples | The medical fraternity. | ||
| Synonyms | fraternity, sodality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
| Member holonym | brother, sodalist | ||
| 3. | brotherhood (feeling) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | friendliness | ||
| 4. | brotherhood (group) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | ||
| Samples | You have to join the union in order to get a job. | ||
| Synonyms | labor union, trade union, trades union, union | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | company union, craft union, I.W.W., industrial union, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, vertical union | ||
| Part meronym | labor, labor movement, trade union movement | ||
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