meaning of brother
1. A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
2. One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc. ; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
3. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
4. To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
5. A brother by both the fathers and mothers side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
Related Words
brother | brother-in-law | brothered | brotherhood | brotherliness | brotherly | brothers | brothers-in-law |
