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brothered

brothered is the alternative form of brotherred.

brothered is the simple past and past participle of brother.

Meaning of brotherred

Noun

brotherred (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Brotherhood; fraternity.
    • Mr. and Brothern of the fraternitie or Brotherhed of the Assumption of our blessed Ladie uppon the Bridge of Bristol, which fraternity or brothered is a ffrateraitie or Brothered of Temporal persons not incorporated, [...]1881, James Fawckner Nicholls, John Taylor, Bristol past and present

Meaning of brother

Verb

brother (third-person singular simple present brothers, present participle brothering, simple past and past participle brothered)

  1. (transitive) To treat as a brother.
    • Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother?1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

See all 13 meanings of brother

Origin of brothered

From Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood”). More at brotherred.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about brothered

What is brothered the alternative form of?
Brothered is the alternative form of brotherred.

Words near brothered in the dictionary

  1. brother-zones
  2. brother-zoning
  3. brotherboy
  4. brotherboys
  5. brotherdom
  6. brothered
  7. brotherfucker
  8. brotherfuckers
  9. brotherfucking
  10. brotherhood
  11. brotherhood-in-arms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brothered (page history and authors); brotherred (page history and authors); brother (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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