Noun: brotherhood 'brú-dhu(r),hûd- The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
- People engaged in a particular occupation
"the medical brotherhood"; - fraternity, sodality - The feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
- An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
"you have to join the brotherhood in order to get a job"; - union, labor union [US], trade union, trades union, labour union [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: brotherhoods Type of: class, family relationship, friendliness, kinship, organisation [Brit], organization, relationship, social class, socio-economic class, stratum Part of: labor [US], labor movement [US, Austral], labour [Brit, Cdn], labour movement [Brit, Cdn], trade union movement Encyclopedia: Brotherhood, Peter |