1. (

• brotherhood

) the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings ;

2. (

• brotherhood ,
• fraternity ,
• sodality

) people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity" ;

3. (

• brotherhood

) the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers ;

4. (

• union ,
• labor_union ,
• trade_union ,
• trades_union ,
• brotherhood ,

) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" ;