Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

    Bruderschaft

    бра́тствоbrátstvo

  2. (countable, uncountable)A group of people associated for a common purpose.

    Gemeinschaft, Vereinigung

    бра́тствоbrátstvo

  3. (Philippines, US, countable, uncountable)A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

    Verbindung, Burschenschaft

    a social club for male undergraduates

Examples

21 sentences
  1. Tom joined a fraternity.

    Том вступив у братерство.

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  2. Why should I join a fraternity?

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  3. I want to rush a fraternity.

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  4. He is a member of the fraternity.

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  5. Welcome to the fraternity.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the quality of being brothers:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
the quality of being brothers:
group of people associated for a common purpose:
social organization of male students:

Forms

plural: fraternities
Singularfraternity
Pluralfraternities

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
disfavor

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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