Broth″er‐hood (�), n. [Brother + -hood.] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, — especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
A brotherhood of venerable trees.
Wordsworth.
Syn. — Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.