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Brother   /brˈəðər/   Listen
Brother

noun
(pl. brothers or brethren)
1.
A male with the same parents as someone else.  Synonym: blood brother.  Antonym: sister.
2.
A male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group).
3.
A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.  Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick.
4.
Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement.  Synonym: comrade.
5.
(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address.



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"Brother" Quotes from Famous Books



... Not a soul saw me. I wonder where everybody is. And that big brother of mine said I could not get in. [She reads back of card.] "Here is my card, Maudie. If you can use it, go ahead. But you will never get inside the door. I consider my bet as good as won." [Looking up, triumphantly.] You do, do you? Oh, ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London

... they shall teach no more a man his neighbour, and a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord; for they all shall know me, small and great, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg

... so very English that most people would have sworn falsely as to his native land. Lord Ralles was a little, well-built chap, not half so English as Albert Cullen, quick in manner and thought, being in this the opposite of his brother Captain Ackland, who was heavy enough to rock-ballast a roadbed. Both brothers gave me the impression of being gentlemen, and both were ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... Crete, and if their Dagon was imported from that island, he may have had some connection with Poseidon, whose worship extended throughout Greece. This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes. He was a brother of Zeus, the sky and atmosphere deity, and had bull and horse forms. As a horse he pursued Demeter, the earth and corn goddess, and, like Ea, he instructed mankind, but especially in the art of training horses. In ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... screamed aloud and started up as if to fly. Then, recollecting herself, she sank down moaning.—Oh, heavens! she thought, there was no escape, no help! How wretched she was! how utterly miserable! all alone, alone, in such a dreary, lonesome world, with no home, nor father, nor mother, nor brother,—with only a sister who had a husband and children, whom she loved, as she ought, far better than she did her. There was nobody to whom she was the dearest of all,— nobody, except Elam Hunt, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various


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