Sekirov Dictionary

fraternal

/fɹəˈtɝnəl/

adjective 4
noun 2
forms 3

adjective4

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Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.
- By Cognate or Domestic duties, we mean those which grow out of the different family relations; and which may be classed as conjugal, parental, filial, and fraternal. — 1844
•
Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.
- Seventy percent of twins are fraternal and result from fertilization of two separate ova by two different sperm. — 2012
•
Of or pertaining to a fraternity.
- The changing Afro-American class structure shaped the war and postwar growth of black religious and fraternal organizations in southern West Virginia. — 1990
•
Platonic or friendly.
- He took advantage of this opportunity to consider Christian liberty in its relation to the demands of fraternal charity. — 1986

noun2

•
A fraternal twin.
- Her twins were adorable boy-girl fraternals who wore boy-girl clothes in the same fabric. — 2001
•
A society formed to provide mutual aid, such as insurance.
- Here comes in the importance of the proposed bill for the uniform regulation of fraternals. — 1902

forms

fraternals · more fraternal · most fraternal

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