Dictionary Entry
brother
brother is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
- 2noun
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
- 3noun
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
- 4transitive verb
To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
- 5noun
a male with the same parents as someone else
"my brother still lives with our parents"
- 6noun
(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address
"a Benedictine Brother"
- 7noun
a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group)
"none of his brothers would betray him"
- 8noun
used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
"Greetings, comrade!"
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- 9noun
a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
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