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fraternity 音標拼音: [frət'ɚnəti] [frət'ɚnɪti] n. 友愛,互助會,兄弟會 友愛,互助會,兄弟會 fraternity n 1: a social club for male undergraduates [ synonym: { fraternity}, { frat}] 2: people engaged in a particular occupation; " the medical fraternity" [ synonym: { brotherhood}, { fraternity}, { sodality}] Fraternity \ Fra* ter" ni* ty\, n.; pl. { Fraternities}. [ F. fraternit[' e], L. fraternitas.] 1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes. [ 1913 Webster] With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity! -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A social club for male college undergraduates. They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters. The corresponding association for women students is called a { sorority}. Syn: frat. [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for " fraternity": affiliation, agnation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, ancestry, association, blood, blood relationship, boon companionship, brotherhood, brotherliness, brothership, cahoots, camaraderie, chumship, circle, clan, clannishness, clique, closeness, club, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cognation, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, common ancestry, common descent, community, community of interest, companionship, company, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, confrerie, connection, consanguinity, consociation, consolidation, consortship, cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, coterie, country club, cousinhood, cousinship, crowd, enation, esprit de corps, fatherhood, federation, fellowship, filiation, fraternal order, fraternalism, fraternization, freemasonry, friendship, fusion, guild, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration, kindred, kinship, league, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, membership, merger, motherhood, order, partaking, participation, partnership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relatedness, relation, relationship, secret society, set, sharing, sibship, sisterhood, sisterliness, sistership, society, sodality, solidarity, sorority, tie- in, tie- up, ties of blood, unification, union, unity
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