Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.

    Freimaurerei

    масо́нствоmasónstvo, франкмасо́нствоfrankmasónstvo

    a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons.

    Freemasons collectively

Examples

3 sentences
  1. You can see symbols of freemasonry on the one dollar bill.

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  2. Freemasonry is a belief in a higher power.

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  3. Let's talk about Freemasonry.

    ruДавайте побеседуем о масонстве.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
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fellowship and sympathy:
Deutsch
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fellowship and sympathy:

Origin

From freemason + -ry.

From freemason + -ry.

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Forms

plural: freemasonries
Singularfreemasonry
Pluralfreemasonries

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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