Word.ws English Dictionary

brothering

brothering is the present participle and gerund of brother.

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

Questions about brothering

What is brothering the present participle and gerund of?
Brothering is the present participle and gerund of brother.

Words near brothering in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brothering (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brothering.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brothering. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.