brother

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♦♦♦ broth|er /br'ʌðər/ (brothers)
The old-fashioned form brethren is still sometimes used as the plural for meanings 2 and 3.
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N
Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you.
Oh, so you're Peter's younger brother...
Have you got any brothers and sisters?
see also half-brother, stepbrother
2 [N-COUNT] usu poss N
You can describe a man as your brother if he belongs to the same race, religion, country, profession, or trade union as you, or if he has similar ideas to you.
He told reporters he'd come to be with his Latvian brothers.
3 [N-TITLE; N-COUNT; N-VOC]
Brother is a title given to a man who belongs to a religious community such as a monastery.
...Brother Otto.
...the Christian Brothers community which owns the castle.
4 [N-IN-NAMES]
Brothers is used in the names of some companies and shops.
...the film company Warner Brothers...blood broth|er (blood brothers)
also blood-brother
[N-COUNT]
A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.

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