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Definition of Fraternity
1. Noun. A social club for male undergraduates.
Generic synonyms: Club, Gild, Guild, Lodge, Order, Social Club, Society
Member holonyms: Chapter
Derivative terms: Fraternal
2. Noun. People engaged in a particular occupation. "The medical fraternity"
Generic synonyms: Class, Social Class, Socio-economic Class, Stratum
Member holonyms: Brother, Sodalist
Derivative terms: Brother, Fraternise, Fraternize, Sodalist
Definition of Fraternity
1. n. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
Definition of Fraternity
1. Noun. The quality of being brothers; brotherhood ¹
2. Noun. A group of people associated for a common purpose. ¹
3. Noun. (American English) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fraternity
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Medical Definition of Fraternity
1. Origin: F. Fraternite, L. Fraternitas. 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraternity
Literary usage of Fraternity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phi Delta Kappan by Phi Delta Kappa (1912)
"48 New Chapters on fraternity Roll 49 Activities of College Students . ...
December, February and April, by the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity. ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"The Grand fraternity certificate referred to was, however, ... Of the fact that
Herman Laue was dead the defendant fraternity was notified by a letter from ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"A member of each of the twenty- three fraternities was asked to canvass his
respective fraternity and secure from each eligible member the total amount of ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"ered as follows: First, those in which the psychosis occurred in more than one
member of a fraternity; second, those in which it occurred in the fraternity ..."
5. The Christian Examiner (1835)
"A Letter to the Executive Committee of the Benevolent fraternity of Churches,
... GENTLEMEN, A fraternity of churches having been formed for the permanent ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"That upon the said evacuation and abandonment of said third story as a Masonic
hall by the entire Masonic fraternity, on or about the 15th day of January, ..."
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