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fraternitylike

fraternitylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students).

Adjective

fraternitylike (comparative more fraternitylike, superlative most fraternitylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students).
    • Recognition has nothing to do with the Army and a lot to do with fraternitylike hazing traditions of murky origin.1998 May 4, Michael Winerip, “The Joys of Recognition: A First Name and a Bathrobe”, in The New York Times
    • Created by two members of the Masons fraternity who thought their brethren were too stiff, the Shriners struck a chord early this century among working-class men who liked the idea of a fun club with fraternitylike rituals.1999 July 11, Jeff Harrington, “THE SHRINERS // FRATERNAL STRUGGLE”, in Tampa Bay Times

Forms of fraternitylike

comparativemore fraternitylike
superlativemost fraternitylike

Origin of fraternitylike

From fraternity + -like.

Questions about fraternitylike

What does fraternitylike mean?
Fraternitylike means resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students).
What part of speech is fraternitylike?
Fraternitylike is an adjective.

Words near fraternitylike in the dictionary

  1. fraternising
  2. fraternism
  3. fraternitarian
  4. fraternities
  5. fraternity
  6. fraternitylike
  7. fraternizable
  8. fraternization
  9. fraternizations
  10. fraternize
  11. fraternized

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