Sekirov Dictionary

brother

UK /ˈbɹʌðə/US /ˈbɹʌðɚ/

noun 11
exclamation 1
verb 1
forms 7
phrases 1

noun11

a boy or a man with the same parents as someone else
A male having at least one parent in common with another person (see half-brother, stepbrother).
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Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause, situation, or affection.
- O, then! To ride upon such glories, Till my time comes nigh, And commune in the city of peaceful slumbers Among my brothers of wind-blown rye. — 2016
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Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
- And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. — 1943
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(informal) A form of address to a man.
- Brother, can you spare a dime?
- Listen, brother, I don't know what you want, but I’m not interested.
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Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.
- At the monastery, Brother Stephen supervises the kitchen.
- Please welcome Brother Smith as he moves from his former congregation to his new congregation.
Title of respect for an adult male member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
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A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- Thank you, brother.
- I would like to thank the brother who just spoke.
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A fellow black man.
- The white cop grilled me. He was tall, but had a stomach like a pregnant woman. The other two were brothers, and they looked like they just didn't wanna be standing there. — 2006
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(literary) Someone who is a kinsman or shares the same patriarch.
- Oh, my Brothers, five nights ago many of our braves were out upon the buffalo grounds. — 1908
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A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
- The Native American had a kinship with nature, even referring to Mother Earth and Brother Bear.

exclamation1

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Expressing exasperation.
- We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother!

verb1

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To treat as a brother.
- Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother? — 1819

forms

brothered · brothering · brothers · Brothers · brethren · brothern · brothren

Phrases with brother

everybody and his brother
Everybody, everyone; also, a large number of people; most people.

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