| 单词 | fraternity |
| 释义 | fraternity /freuh terr"ni tee/, n. , pl. fraternities. 1. a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters. 2. a group of persons associated by or as if by ties of brotherhood. 3. any group or class of persons having common purposes, interests, etc.: the medical fraternity. 4. an organization of laymen for religious or charitable purposes; sodality. 5. the quality of being brotherly; brotherhood: liberty, equality, and fraternity. 6. the relation of a brother or between brothers. [1300-50; ME fraternite < L fraternitas. See FRATERNAL, -ITY] |
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