(1):
(n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, - especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
(2):
(n.) The state of being brothers or a brother.
(3):
(n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
(4):
(n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
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