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brotherhoods

brotherhoods is the plural of brotherhood.

Meaning of brotherhood

Noun

brotherhood (countable and uncountable, plural brotherhoods)

  1. The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).
    • brotherdom
  2. An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
    • James formed a kind of brotherhood for ex-pats who were working in Valencia.
  3. All the people engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
    • the legal brotherhood
  4. People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
    • a brotherhood of venerable trees1800, William Wordsworth, Degenerate Douglas

Questions about brotherhoods

What is brotherhoods the plural of?
Brotherhoods is the plural of brotherhood.

Words near brotherhoods in the dictionary

  1. brotherfucker
  2. brotherfuckers
  3. brotherfucking
  4. brotherhood
  5. brotherhood-in-arms
  6. brotherhoods
  7. brothering
  8. brotherji
  9. brotherjis
  10. brotherkin
  11. brotherkins

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