Associations to the word «Brotherhood»

Wiktionary

BROTHERHOOD, noun. The state of being brothers or a brother.
BROTHERHOOD, noun. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
BROTHERHOOD, noun. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
BROTHERHOOD, noun. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

Dictionary definition

BROTHERHOOD, noun. The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings.
BROTHERHOOD, noun. People engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity".
BROTHERHOOD, noun. The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers.
BROTHERHOOD, noun. An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats