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FRATERNITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People engaged in a particular occupation
Example:
the medical fraternity
Synonyms:
brotherhood; fraternity; sodality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("fraternity" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Meronyms (members of "fraternity"):
brother (a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group))
sodalist (a member of a sodality)
Derivation:
fraternise; fraternize (be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A social club for male undergraduates
Synonyms:
frat; fraternity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("fraternity" is a kind of...):
club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)
Meronyms (members of "fraternity"):
chapter (a local branch of some fraternity or association)
Derivation:
fraternal (of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men)
