Meaning

4 senses
  1. Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.

    brüderlich

    бра́тскийbrátskij

    брате́рськийbratérsʹkyj, бра́тськийbrátsʹkyj

    like or characteristic of or befitting a brother

  2. Of or pertaining to a fraternity.

    of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men

  3. Platonic or friendly.

  4. Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.

    (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Are they identical or fraternal twins?

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  2. Generous amounts of alcohol were proffered, and fraternal toasts shared.

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  3. The birth mother gave birth to two beautiful fraternal twins, weighing two kilograms each.

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  4. Sets of all-identical quadruplets are rare - it is more likely a quadruplet set contains a mixture of fraternal and identical siblings.

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  5. "Don't look alike do you?" "That's because we're fraternal twins."

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
of or pertaining brothers:
Русский
By meaning 1
of or pertaining brothers:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of or pertaining brothers:

Forms

more fraternal, most fraternal
Comparativemore fraternal Lesson
Superlativemost fraternal Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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