fraternity 音标拼音: [frət'ɚnəti] [frət'ɚnɪti]
n . 友爱,互助会,兄弟会
友爱,互助会,兄弟会
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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