Brotherhood \Broth"er*hood\, n. [Brother + -hood.]
   1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
      
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   2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a
      fraternity.
      
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   3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, --
      especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or
      medical brotherhood.
      
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   4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
      
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            A brotherhood of venerable trees.     --Wordsworth.
      
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   Syn: Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
        
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