What is another word for brotherhoods?

Pronunciation: [bɹˈʌðəhˌʊdz] (IPA)

Brotherhoods refer to organizations or groups of men who share common interests, goals and values. Synonyms for this term include fraternities, clans, clubs, lodges, societies, and associations. Fraternities typically refer to brotherhoods formed on college campuses while clans are groups with a shared ancestry or familial origin. Clubs outline communities formed around a specific activity or interest, whereas lodges are groups of men gathered around a specific place of meeting. Societies refer to brotherhoods that are formed around shared values or a common mission, while associations are groups of men who have come together for a particular purpose. Regardless of the synonym used, the essence of brotherhood remains the shared bond between men who come together to support one another.

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Usage examples for Brotherhoods

Special Te Deums were constantly sung, and the boys had to take part in the numerous solemn processions of religious brotherhoods through the city, as well as in the services for royal birthdays and other such occasions.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
But Sam's older brother was this year completing his education at a university, and Mrs. Williams was not altogether ignorant of the obligations of secrecy imposed upon some brotherhoods; so she was able to comprehend Sam's silent withdrawal, and, instead of summoning him back for further questions, she waited until he was out of hearing and then began to laugh.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
For several years, at various philosophical gatherings and brotherhoods, Paula, invariably stimulated by the unusual, had encountered this remarkable woman.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort

Famous quotes with Brotherhoods

  • I had sampled several such brotherhoods, including the Rosey Cross and the Orange Lodge, during the period in which I examined the Supernatural and found it not merely uninstructive but damnably dull, its members possessing nothing in the way of individual imagination and a great need to seek confirmation in numbers for the merits of miserable little madnesses....Such people as a rule were lonely, confounded misfits, attempting to alter the surrounding evidence of Nature by inventing abstractions to explain why common facts were false and ordinary reality a poor illusion.
    Michael Moorcock

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