Brother :: Brother (n.) 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..
Brother :: Brother (n.) 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..
Brother :: Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character..
Brother :: Brother (v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
Brother German :: Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only..
Brother-in-law :: Brother-in-law (n.) The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister..
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) The state of being brothers or a brother.
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity..
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood..
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind..
Brotherliness :: Brotherliness (n.) The state or quality of being brotherly.
Brotherly :: Brotherly (a.) Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love..
Brotherly :: Brotherly (adv.) Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
Half-brother :: Half-brother (n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both..
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..