noun. A male having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.

noun. One who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, especially.

noun. A kinsman.

noun. A fellow man.

noun. A fellow member, as of a fraternity, trade union, or panel of judges on a court.

noun. A close male friend; a comrade.

noun. A fellow African-American man or boy.

noun. Something, such as a corporation or institution, that is regarded as a member of a class.

noun. undefined

noun. A lay member of a religious order of men.

noun. A fellow member of the Christian church.

Bearing a fraternal relation in a general sense; of the character of a brother: as, a brother man or magistrate.

To consider or treat as a brother; address as a brother.

To relate as brothers; make kin.

noun. A male person, in his relation to another person or other persons of either sex born of the same parents; a male relative in the first degree of descent or mutual kinship: used also of the lower animals: the converse of sister. See brother-in-law and half-brother.

noun. A male person in his relation to any other person or persons of the same blood or ancestry; a member of a common family or race in his relation to all other members; in the plural, all members of a particular race, or of the human race in general, as regards each other.

noun. One of two or more men closely united without regard to personal kinship, as by a common interest; an associate; one of the same rank, profession, occupation, or belief, especially in law, religion, or organized charity.

noun. Specifically, as a translation of friar, a member of a mendicant order.

noun. In the plural form brethren, the designation of several Christian organizations, derived from the fact that the title was used by the primitive Christians in speaking of themselves; specifically, a sect of German Baptists, more popularly known as Dunkers.

noun. A member of a religious congregation whose members do not receive the priesthood, but devote themselves to teaching or good works; also, a lay member of a community having priests.

noun. Figuratively, one who resembles another in manners or disposition.

noun. Often abbreviated bro., plural bros.

noun. [The plural form brethren is not now used in the sense of male children of the same parents, but only in the wider meanings of the word brother.]

noun. A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.

noun. One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.

noun. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.

noun. a humorous designation for the people of the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have originated from Washington's referring to the patriotic Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as “Brother Jonathan.”

noun. See under Blood.

transitive verb. To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.

noun. Son of the same parents as another person.

noun. A male child descended from the same parents.

noun. A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).

noun. A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

noun. A black male.

noun. Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.

verb. To treat as a brother.

noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address

noun. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

noun. a male with the same parents as someone else

noun. used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement

noun. a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group)

"Scripture frequently inculcates: e.g. a brother is to be admonished privately, publicly, &c., not for the gaining of our private interests, advantages, &c., but for _the gaining of our brother_, that his soul and conscience may be gained to God and to his duty, and he be reformed,"

amyclæan brothers  apostolic brethren  associate  attidian brethren  bohemian brethren  

fraternal  fraternity  friar  

brothered  

friend  monastic  monk  sibling  

brother of the half blood  half-brother  

Mother  another  mother  nother  other  

bow  boy  companion  cousin  dear  

Greek  abbacomes  abbot  acquaintance  adjunct  

brethren