Definition of brother

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Brother (n.) 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..

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Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. i.) To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings..
Half-brother :: Half-brother (n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both..
Cadet :: Cadet (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.
Fraternization :: Fraternization (n.) The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.
Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..
Leviratical :: Leviratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother..
Brother :: Brother (v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
Synonyms :: Synomocy (n.) Sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient Greece nearly resembling a modern political club.
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood..
Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..
Bub :: Bub (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
Brother German :: Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only..
Erebus :: Erebus (n.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus..
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..
Nephew :: Nephew (n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law..
Brotherliness :: Brotherliness (n.) The state or quality of being brotherly.
#NAME? :: -hood () A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head..
Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon..
Love :: Love (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters..
Twin :: Twin (a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister..
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