brotherhood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings
  2. noun people engaged in a particular occupation
    sodality; fraternity.
    • the medical fraternity
  3. noun the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
  4. noun an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
    union; trades union; labor union; trade union.
    • you have to join the union in order to get a job

WordNet

Broth"er*hood noun
Etymology
Brother + -hood.
Definitions
  1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
  2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
  4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
    A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth.
    Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.

Webster 1913