Brotherhood

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The state of being brothers or a brother.

II. Brotherhood ·noun Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

III. Brotherhood ·noun An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.

IV. Brotherhood ·noun The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, — especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.