Word Meanings - FRATERNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood. 2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for

Additional info about word: FRATERNITY

1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood. 2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc. 3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes. With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity! South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRATERNITY)

• Association
• Union
• connection
• conjunction
• contortment
• companionship
• alliance
• familiarity
• community
• membership
• society
• company
• denomination
• partnership
• fellowship
• fraternity
• friendship
• Brotherhood
• Fraternity
• association
• sodality
• Community
• Aggregation
• commonwealth
• co-ordination
• sympathy
• order
• class
• brotherhood
• polity
• unity
• nationality
• similarity
• homogeneity
• Company
• union
• guild
• corporation
• assemblage
• assembly
• crew
• posse
• gang
• troop
• audience
• congregation
• concourse

Related words: (words related to FRATERNITY)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• GUILDABLE
  Liable to a tax.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• HOMOGENEITY
  See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
• POSSE
  See VOCABULARY
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• GUILDHALL
  The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.